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Jason Tchir
Toronto, September 1, 2005 -A SATELLITE the size of a milk carton could be the next big thing in space, say the University of Toronto grad students who built it.
"It's small but it does a lot," Stephen Mauthe said of CanX-2, the 3.5-kilo satellite he worked on with fellow Masters students, including Karan Sarda and Stephen Mauthe at the university's Space Flight Laboratory.
The small wonder is classified as a nanosatellite because it weighs less than 10 kilos.
It will cost only $500,000 to launch, said Dr. Robert Zee, the lab's managing director.
CanX-2, to hit space next year, will transmit images of the earth and telemetry back to researchers.
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