The Garvey Spacecraft Corporation’s Prospector Prospector 18 rocket lifts off, carrying its payload of CubeSats. Despite a hard landing, all four satellites were recovered. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
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Students and engineers participate in a prelaunch briefing before liftoff of the Prospector P-18 rocket.
The student-designed RUBICS-1 payload is in the foreground before the CubeSats are loaded into the body of the Prospector rocket.
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