Israeli High Schoolers Build Nanosatellite, Watch Its Launch at Kennedy Space Center
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Yesterday at Cape Canaveral, it was one small step for teenagers and and one giant leap for teen-kind, as 14 Israeli high school students watched their nanosatellite launch into space.
The gizmo, Duchifat-2 (Hebrew for Hoopoe, Israel’s national bird, apparently), was among 28 nanosatellites built for the European Union’s QB50 thermosphere research program. The best part? Of the 23 countries represented, Duchifat-2’s designers―comprised of about 80 students in grades 9-12 from Herzliya, Ofakim, Yeruham, the Ofra settlement in the West Bank, and Hura, a Bedouin town―were the youngest, reported The Times of Israel: The Israeli effort was the only entry made by high school students.