UNH Student-Built Satellite will Blast into Space, Collects Data for NASA’s IMAP Mission_188体育app_188体育在线-平台官网

Robbin Ray ’82
Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:15 -0500

DURHAM, N.H.—A multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students led by the University of New Hampshire designed and built a mini satellite, known as a CubeSat, that will launch into space to gather data in collaboration with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. The small-but-mighty satellite is set to launch on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California no earlier than Nov. 10, 2025 at 10:19 a.m. PST. It will head to the outer reaches of the atmosphere to study the solar wind which will help 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.
“This is an amazing opportunity...