Country of Origin: United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 ft. 4 in. wide (40.6cm)
Support (base): 9 in. long x 1 in. wide (22.9 x 2.5cm)
Materials:
Steel, Paint, Aluminum, Acrylic (Plexiglas), Adhesive, Paper
NUSAT 1 (Northern Utah Satellite), carried aboard the Space Shuttle in 1985 as a "getaway special", was the first satellite built and flown as a student-initiated project.
Built by a consortium of three universities, led by Weber State College, NUSAT was designed to measure the patterns of air traffic control radars as a means to check and calibrate these radars worldwide. The satellite operated and gathered data for about eight months.
This artifact is a full-scale display model donated by Weber State College to the Museum in 1987.
Gift of Weber State College
