Students in Lafayette began receiving radio signals from CAPE-3 early on Monday, 2021-01-18.
CAPE-3 is the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s third satellite launched as part of the CAPE program.
CAPE-3 was one of 10 smallsats launched on 2021-01-17 from a Virgin Orbit rocket released from a customized Boeing 747 high above the Pacific Ocean.
CAPE-3 is a cubesat carrying a radiation-detection chip designed and built by students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Nearly all of the cubesat missions on the LauncherOne flight were designed, built, and tested by U.S. universities including Brigham Young University (PICS), the University of Michigan (MiTEE), and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (CAPE-3).