From class to orbit: Students design and launch satellite

It all started with a question: "Can we go to space?"

For Arabi Karteepan, head of physics at Croydon High School for Girls in south London, the response was naturally "yes, why not?"

The students then spent a year designing and creating a CubeSat, a miniature satellite which records how sunlight comes through the Earth's atmosphere.

Now having successfully completed the flight test aboard FAAM Airborne Laboratory, it's made their dreams of going to space one step closer.

Edited by Fosiya Ismail

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