Jack Cackler and his team, who launched their nanosatellite back during the Winter Enrichment Period from the KAUST campus, finally got word it had been found on Wednesday. A Bedouin searching for his missing camel came across it east of Taif and team members Saad Alrawaf and Mohammad Shaqura raced to the scene to retrieve it. The team is currently reviewing some 20GB of data collected and promise to keep us informed as they do their analysis. They did, however, provide these two wonderful photographs taken during the flight.
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We are going back to retrieve the rest of the satellite salvage which is 40 km deep in the desert very soon. Then we will share the full story 🙂
this is wonderful work, although I have a question. didnt you have a way to track it sposition so you will know where to find it and retreive the data?
Errata: the actual landing position of the satellite is not close to taif at all: revewing the images, it appear that it landed at the following coordinates:
Lat 22deg 11′ 25.3″ N
Lon 40deg 38′ 34.0″ E
Please update the map
Dear Yan, a new entry has been written and the google map in the original fixed to reflect the accurate location. Thanks for the update. Keep us posted on your exciting developments.