The QB50 project is about to launch 3D printed plastic satellites into the thermosphere. It’s part of the most comprehensive study ever produced of the solar flares and storms that take place when the Northern Lights dance across the sky.
To date, 48 universities and institutions have pitched in and will take part in the study that should give us a much deeper understanding of the thermosphere with the help of 50 separate CubeSat satellites.
“The region is poorly understood and hard to measure,” said Andrew Dempster, director of the Australian Center for Space Engineering Research at the University of New South Wales. Read More…
