A Kerry farmer is a part of a team launching Ireland’s first satellite.
Bas Stijnen, from Dún Chaoin, is a PhD Student in the UCD School for Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
He is a part of a UCD team who have designed and built EIRSAT-1, a satellite launched last week.
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This will carry three experiments into space and report back to a command centre on the Irish campus.
The team have a secondary ground station on the farm in Dún Chaoin.
