Aalto-2 satellite launched into space
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 08:32
in Astronomy & Space
In the evening on Tuesday 18 April, Aalto-2, the satellite designed and built by students in Otaniemi was launched on the Atlas V booster rocket towards the International Space Station orbiting the Earth. It will take the cargo spacecraft Cygnus about three days to reach the International Space Station.