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SPOC launching from ISS, Photo by Astronaut Kate Rubin

Thursday, January 7, 2021

SSRL Satellite Launched

In an historic first for UGA, On October 2, the SPOC Satellite built by students and faculty in the Small Satellite Research Laboratory was launched aboard an Antares rocket headed for the International Space Station.

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