In a giant leap for Virginia Tech, the first satellite built by undergraduate students is scheduled to be launched into space on April 17, 2019.

One small step closer to reaching space, a group of Virginia Tech undergraduate students recently delivered their small satellite to Houston to be incorporated into NanoRacks' commercially developed CubeSat deployer.  Virginia Tech's satellite, along with two satellites from other Virginia universities, is scheduled to launch on the payload section of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket and then will be headed to the International Space Station.  more