UMass-Lowell students to design satellite for NASA

A team of students from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell has been awarded $200,000 by federal aviation officials to design and build a satellite. The miniature satellite named "SPACE HAUC" for the school's River Hawk mascot will be launched into orbit in two years, with the intention of it circling the earth for a year, capturing and transmitting data. "SPACE HAUC will give me and my fellow students valuable hands-on experience in astronautical engineering research and development," mechanical engineering student and project's program manager Dat Le said in a statement. More

(Source: MassLive.com - Aug 13)