THE FIRST ROMANIAN SATELLITE

The first space satellite ever built in Romania reached Earth orbit even National Day on December 1, 2008, by a rocket of the European Space Agency.The first space satellite ever built in Romania reached Earth orbit even National Day on December 1, 2008, by a rocket of the European Space Agency. Although it was named Goliath, the satellite is actually one-sided cubes every 10 cm, built in the last two years of the new Romanian students, doctoral or master now, under the Romanian Space Agency. Goliath will transmit images of Romanian territory, will measure radiation in the atmosphere and to detect deteriorating micrometeorites that while solar panels and other objects placed in orbit of Earth.
New youth have to harness satellite building in 2005, back when they were still students at the Polytechnic, Physics or aircraft. They did draft and won a grant of 1.5 million lei, the Ministry of Education. To make it as small a scale, the authors have used the import component.

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