Student-built satellite prepares to launch by fall

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Student-built satellite prepares to launch by fall

Since Texas A&M became a space-grant university in 1989, it has been taking strides in space-related research with various space projects happening all over campus. One of these projects, however, is about to be sent into space — and it’s being built right under everyone’s noses. “Most people walk by it many times a day,” mechanical engineering senior Avik Ahuja said. “People who live at Hullabaloo, they walk by this building … and they don’t ev…