Month: March 2024

Satellite designed by Missouri S&T students launches into space

Students, faculty and staff cheer as the SpaceX rocket carrying S&T’s satellite launches into space. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T.

A Missouri S&T student-designed satellite is now in space and revolving around the Earth — thanks to some help from a SpaceX rocket. On Monday, March 4, several members of the Missouri S&T Satellite Research Team were in California and watched in person as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which was carrying the team’s small, cube-shaped satellite, lifted…