(Photo By: Tel Aviv University)
By: NoCamels Team - November 5, 2020
Tel Aviv University (TAU) is set to launch its own satellite into space early next year to conduct a series of experiments while in orbit, the first such project undertaken by an Israeli academic institution.
The satellite, dubbed the TAU-SAT1, is a nanosatellite developed, assembled, and tested at the new Nanosatellite Center at TAU, an interdisciplinary endeavor of the Faculties of Engineering and Exact Sciences and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. It has been in development for two years.
The satellite is currently undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japanese space agency JAXA, after which it will be sent to the United States to hitch a ride sometime in early 2021 on a NASA and Northrop Grumman resupply spacecraft destined for the International Space Station, the university explained in a statement.
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