UVic team’s satellite launches aboard SpaceX rocket

The University of Victoria celebrated the launch of a student-designed CubeSat, which travelled aboard a SpaceX rocket yesterday. The launch marked the second such satellite created by the university’s Centre for Aerospace Research (CfAR) and Satellite Design Team. While MARMOTSat was designed with the goal of collecting data on the Earth’s ionosphere, UVic CfAR electrical designer Blake Baldwin explained that its satellite radio system’s design has also been released to provide others with a foundation to design their own. The UVic team plans to launch its third mission in 2027.