Researchers at UWI, Mona have developed a satellite which they hope to use as a model for the Caribbean’s first functional home-grown satellite, capable of being launched in space. The type of satellite is known as a CUBESAT, usually built to carry out space research.
It was built by researchers of the Department of Physics under the Programme to Enhance and Apply our Knowledge of Space (PEAKS).
Lead researcher Dr. Louis-Ray Harris said the prototype is already capable of carrying out several functions performed by satellites in space.