Student Highlights
AubieSat-1
The Auburn University student-built
satellite, AubieSat-1, was launched into
space and is now orbiting the globe. The
launch occurred at 4:48 a.m. on Oct.
28, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California aboard a NASA-sponsored Delta
II rocket. The construction of the satellite
was part of the Auburn University Student
Space Program, and AubieSat-1 is the first
student-built satellite in the state to be
accepted by NASA for launch. Numerous
universities and individual ham radio
operators around the globe signed up to help track AubieSat-1, and
the first signal was received shortly after launch from Vigo University
in Spain. The signal was also heard as far away as Japan and as near as
the University of Alaska.
“We have received messages from all over the world from
people who have made communication with our satellite,” said J-M
Wersinger, professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and
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