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MSU celebrates first birthday of student-built satellite

Montana State University's student-built satellite has now orbited the Earth for more than one year, wildly surpassing all design expectations, according to David Klumpar, director of MSU's Space Science and Engineering Laboratory.
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MSU's satellite renamed to honour former director of Montana Space Grant Consortium.

The Montana State University satellite that has been orbiting the Earth since Oct. 28 has been renamed to honour the late William Hiscóck, who was director of the Montana Space Grant Consortium until his death in 2009.
Directors of the MSGC and MSU's Space Science and Engineering Lab announced Friday, Nov. 4, that the satellite originally called Explorer-1 [Prime] will now be called the William A. Hiscóck Radiation Belt Explorer. The satellite that involved approximately 125 students over five years will be known more familiarly as The Hiscóck Radiation Belt Explorer (HRBE).
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All systems are green - all systems go for launch of the Glory Mission with MSU's Explorer-1 [Prime] hitchhiking along for its ride into space in just under 9-hours Probability of weather scrub is only 10% (if a big cumulus cloud happens to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time). Our first contact over Bozeman from the Cobleigh Ground station is expected around 1:00 pm Wednesday afternoon.
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It's official.
A small research satellite that Montana State University students built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful U.S. satellite will ride into space this fall on a NASA launch.
MSU's "Explorer-1 Prime" and satellites from two other universities were nominated for flight about 1˝ years ago, but the universities didn't know until now if, or when, the satellites might be launched or the mission that would carry them. NASA announced Tuesday that the three satellites are scheduled to be launched in late November with Glory, a climate mission to measure the sun's energy output and the distribution of tiny airborne aerosol particles.
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A satellite made by Montana State University students to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. satellite has moved another step closer to space.
MSU's satellite, called "Explorer-1 Prime," was one of three recommended to fly on a NASA rocket, MSU scientists announced this week. The others were made at the University of Kentucky and the University of Colorado-Boulder. All the satellites are metal cubes measuring about four inches per side. That size, a standard adopted by several universities, allows the cubes to ride in an enclosed box that can be attached to a rocket.

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