A SpaceX rocket due to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Tuesday will carry a small cube satellite created by members of AlbertaSat, a student club that designs, builds and operates satellites, the university said Friday.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“It’s really exciting for us to see that satellite, which was just a design on paper two years ago, getting to a point where it’s actually operational,” said Hundal, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the university.
Hundal said he’s joining several AlbertaSat members travelling to the Florida launch site, where they will watch their project take flight. “A lot of us are space enthusiasts who want to make some sort of contribution as well as learn about the space industry,” he said.