Funding Space Dreams: Canada awards 9 students with $3.15 million to build CubeSat

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Nine Canadian students in Post-Secondary Institutions have been awarded funding worth over $3.15 million to design, build, launch and operate their own satellite, called CubeSat.

The funding is part of Canada’s CubeSat initiative for to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the country.

The announcement of grants by the Canadian Space Agency comes after the successful third launch of a miniature satellite under the CubeSat project.

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The selected students will get a chance under Canadian Space Agency experts to build own satellites from scratch, from mission planning to launch.

Selected students include Ross Neitz, Carlos Lange and Priya Manavalan, Gabriel Dubé, Mae Seto, Eleanor Coopsammy, Andrei Hanu, Soo Hyun Byun, Eric Johnston Jackey Locke, Des Power, Layne Ransom, Jeff Renaud and Afzal Suleman.

The selected members will get the grant in a period of over 3 years to advance space science and technology while getting trained to become next-gen space explorers.

Under the CubeSat project, they get trained to develop a square-shaped satellite, roughly around the size of Rubik’s Cube and weighs 1 kg, that can be used alone or up to 24 units together.