Device designed by Armenian students will be sent into space

PanARMENIAN.Net - A device designed by Ad Astra – a team comprising young and talented students from Ayb school’s engineering lab – will be sent into space in June, the school said Monday, June 6.

The Ad Astra team includes 12th grade students Andre Vardanyan, Elina Melkonyan, Hayk Piliposyan and 11th grader Davit Vanyan. Their mentors are Vazgen Gabrielyan and Ruben Kerobyan.

The 197 gram device (payload) will be placed in a sub-orbital rocket and will be sent to the altitude of 125 km, i.e. it will cross the Kármán line, the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, the Public Radio of Armenia reports.

The device will stay in space for 2-3 minutes, during this period it will collect data on the rocket’s flight path, temperature, pressure change, speed, acceleration, as well as the intensity of ultraviolet radiation and ozone concentration.