K’oto, the Unam Nanosatellite Who Wants to Look at Mexico From Space

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It will capture images of the national territory and monitor volcanoes such as the Popocatépetl, reported Rafael Guadalupe Chávez Moreno The Nanosatelite K’OTO entrance, created at UNAM will orbit the Earth was first published in CAMPUS MILENIO.

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It weighs only 1.3 kilos and fits in the hands. It is shaped like a cube, it measures only 10 centimeters per side and, even so, it was designed for a huge task: to observe Mexico from space. It is not a science fiction mission, but K’OTO, the nanosatellite developed by the UNAM Engineering School on its Juriquilla campus. The strength of this project is not only in its tiny size, but in what it represents. While many spatial advances seem dista…