[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/nx4716XlxD4″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Three Virginia university satellites were deployed into nearly simultaneous orbit from the International Space Station via the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer at 10:50 a.m. EDT this morning. The Virginia CubeSat Constellation mission is a collaborative project of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium and four of its member universities: Old Dominion University (ODU), Virginia Tech (VT), University of Virginia (UVA), and Hampton University (HU). Read the press release here. Livestream video (above) courtesy of UVA. Photograph courtesy of NanoRacks. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_separator type=”normal”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_single_image image=”20122″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]University of Virginia Students Hannah Umansky (front), Connor Segal (left) and Kathryn Wason (right) give a thumbs up after their satellite, Libertas, is deployed from the International Space Station as part of the Virginia CubeSat Constellation mission. Photograph courtesy of University of Virginia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
