How a Pocket-Size Satellite Could Find Another Earth, Time
What makes ExoplanetSat even more un-NASA-like is that it began as a class project -- although admittedly, the class was at MIT. It was a design-and-build course, which the university's engineering students have to take in order to graduate. In a recent semester, the class was co-taught by Sara Seager, an astrophysicist who has done groundbreaking research studying how the atmospheres of planets orbiting distant stars might look like from earthly telescopes. Seager recruited five science undergrads to join her engineers, on the theory that out in the real world, they'd eventually have to work with engineers anyway.
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TAGS: astronomy, cubesat, extrasolar
FILED UNDER: Astronomy, CubeSats, Extrasolar Planets, NASA Hack Space
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