For the past seven years students at Thomas Jefferson High School have been working on a satellite, named TJ Reverb, was set to be launched on Saturday, November 26th. The satellite’s mission is to measure the effectiveness of iridium radio for satellite communications. The tissue box sized satellite was set to be delivered to the International Space Station via the SpaceX cargo launch.
Kristen Kucko, the school’s robotics lab director says that the work these students performed is that of Ph D and graduate students. The group of students spent hours after school working on coding and determining why circuits might not be working. After Saturday’s launch, the students will communicate with the satellite which is set to be deployed in January.