Tiny Satellite Built by UNH Students Blasts Off to Space_188体育app_188体育在线-平台官网

Rebecca Irelan
Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:15 -0500

When the Falcon 9 rocket blasted off the day after Thanksgiving, it carried with it years of hard work — and the hopes and dreams — of 26 UNH undergraduate students who built a miniature satellite to study the sun and its effects on space weather. A UNH-led student collaboration with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, their small satellite launched on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 28, 2025 at 10:19 a.m. PST. It now heads to the outer reaches of the atmosphere to study the solar wind, helping scientists in their quest to improve space weather forecasting and better protect technology in space and on Earth — such as communication networks, power grids and GPS — from potentially damaging large solar flare events....