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August 18th, 2011
Kentucky-built Satellite Launches Into Orbit from Russia

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EduSat will be controlled by Morehead students from the lead Kentucky Space on-orbit ground operations facility at the university. During its first 30 days in orbit, EduSat will test a new type of orbital deployer designed to release numerous smaller satellites called PocketQubs, invented by Bob Twiggs, former director of the Space Systems Development Lab at Stanford University and now a professor at Morehead State. Read more