FalconSAT
FalconSAT is the United States Air Force Academy's (USAFA) small satellite engineering program.Satellites are designed, built, tested, and operated by Academy cadets.The project is administered by the USAFA Space Systems Research Center under the direction of the Department of Astronautics.Compared to most commercial satellite projects, FalconSAT is considerably lower budget, and follows a very accelerated development cycle.FalconSAT used to have a sister project, FalconLaunch, to design and develop sounding rocket class vehicles.
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