Prospector Rocket Launches Cube Sat Demonstration For Florida High School, Three Others

Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a highaltitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch teams. The satellites, known as CubeSats, lifted off from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry launch site in the Mojave Desert aboard a Prospector 18 rocket, built by Garvey Spacecraft Corp. of Long Beach. Data recorded by the CubeSats onboard sensors during Saturday s flight test will help characterize the environme