Published on March 7, 2017
Students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia gathered to watch the St. Thomas More (STM)Sat-1, the first CubeSat built by elementary school students, deploy from the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) system aboard the International Space Station on May 16. The STMSat-1 is an educational mission to provide hands-on, inquiry-based learning activities with an on-orbit mission to photograph the Earth and transmit images to our primary ground station and to remote ground stations throughout the country. The CubeSat was launched to the ISS on Dec. 6, 2015 aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo resupply spacecraft as part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) IX mission.
