Follow US Immigration and follow US technology development: Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility on the coast of Virginia. The rocket carried 29 small CubeSat satellites, including one built by high school students.
This satellite, named "TJ3-Sat," is the product of six years of hard work and is the first satellite built by high school students to enter Earth orbit. The satellite uses a voice synthesizer to convert text into speech, allowing people around the world to listen to the audio information transmitted back to Earth via specific radio frequencies.
It is reported that approximately 50 students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, built this 907-gram satellite with the sponsorship of Orbital Sciences Corporation and the cooperation of volunteers.
According to the development team, the satellite is now capable of interacting with the ground and transmitting audio back to Earth via a voice conversion device. People on Earth can already listen to the audio signals sent by the satellite by using a radio that supports shortwave functionality and tuning the channel to 437.320MHz. It should be noted that the original text messages for the voice messages we hear are sent to the satellite in a special electronic format.
The creators of the satellite stated that the satellite first receives text messages sent by students into space, then converts the text into speech, and finally transmits it back to Earth, where the audio messages can be heard worldwide via shortwave radio. The purpose of this project is to enable teachers and students in the United States and around the world to communicate and listen to each other through space.
It is gratifying that students are able to communicate through space using equipment they built themselves, but it should be noted that the device will only operate for three years—due to Earth's gravity, the satellite will disintegrate after three years.
