HUNTSVILLE – The Terminus Spaceflight Research Group at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is set to send a payload into space this month, a follow-up to the launch and retrieval of a Terminus payload last August.
The student group, a subset of the Space Hardware Club at UAH, aims to loft a CubeSat-like device that will examine the potential of producing electrical energy by harnessing the heating experienced on reentry of the vehicle, as well as performing biological experiments.
A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite used for space research and exploration that follows a standardized, modular design. The project is part of the NASA RockSat Program, a hands-on initiative that connects higher education students from across the United States with opportunities to fly their experiments on NASA sounding rockets at the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va…