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two student design spacecraft each not

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much bigger than a child's toy block

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will fly on a nasa sub-orbital sounding

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rocket between six and nine a.m eastern

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standard time march 11 from nasa's

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wallops flight facility in virginia

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known as cubesats the spacecraft

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designed by kentucky and california

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college students will gather information

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that could be applied to future small

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earth orbiting space vehicles what we're

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trying to do is create um a mission that

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merges the 17-inch sandman rocket

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diameter sounding rockets and nasa

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wallops with cubesats which have been

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flown by educational university programs

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for several years many many years and

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even nasa has flown cubesats before 72

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seconds into the sub-orbital flight the

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cubesats weighing about two pounds will

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be ejected at an altitude of about 77

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miles nasa is flying the cubesats as

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secondary experiments on a flight whose

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main purpose is to test improvements to

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the rocket's motor

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cubesats could pave the way to a whole