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West Virginia aerospace industry set to take off with launch of WVU small satellite center

3/9/2023

West Virginia is now on its way toward launching the state’s second small satellite. A team from West Virginia University and the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium is poised to turn that achievement into a massive boost for the aerospace industry statewide by taking the first steps toward opening the West Virginia Small Satellite Center of Excellence.


The SmallSat Center will work with businesses and other organizations to develop West Virginia’s second small satellite and to help those partners offer services and products to clients who want to fly experiments out to low orbit. As Melanie Page , director of the Space Grant Consortium, put it, “It’s like a ‘Field of Dreams’ for small satellites.”

With the announcement of $911,708 in U.S. Economic Development Administration funding, that mission is a go.

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