By Chris Taylor
Lexington, KY – A Kentucky nonprofit has launched a student-built spacecraft carrying test hardware and software nearly four miles into space.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Frontier 1 went into space for about 10 minutes on Saturday after being launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's eastern shore.
Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation president Kris Kimmell says the spacecraft was built to test hardware and software systems that will be flown on an orbital satellite, KentuckySat 1, set to launch in November with NASA's Glory Mission.
Kimmell says the craft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up, as expected.