A satellite comes to Kentucky.

KentuckySat, a new organization made up of Kentucky universities and organizations, will design, build and launch KySat, a Pico class cube-shaped satellite with a mass of less than one kilogram. Once in orbit by late 2007, it will be available at no cost to Kentucky students, teachers and schools for educational and research uses. Greg Drake, coordinator of instructional technology at Fayette County (Ky.) Public Schools, is working with several teaches to incorporate KySat into math, computer science, physics and astronomy classes. "There's a lot of flexibility about how it can be implemented," says Drake. "If we were to get students together and work on measuring the earth's magnetic field, we could concentrate on that. If we want to look at space photography, we can."

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