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The award-winning supplier of small and micro spacecraft systems, Clyde Space, announced that Scottland’s first designed and built satellite will be taking-off on board a Russian rocket this coming June from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The UKube-1 nanosatellite will take part in a United Kingdom Space Agency mission once it was launched. Using the GPS technology, the satellite will measure plasmaspheric space weather and study how cosmic radiation could improve the security of communication satellites. UKube-1 will also carry five experiments targeted at students from the U.K.
“One small satellite for Clyde and a giant leap for their extraterrestrial export business and a new hope for space science in Scotland,” described Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister.