A trio of nanosatellites built and developed by the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Technion) and Israel Aerospace Industries launched this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, piggybacking on a Glavkosmos Soyuz rocket.
The Israeli nanosatellites will orbit at an altitude of 550 kilometers (340 miles) and transmit data to a control center at Technion’s Asher Space Research Institute, which will use it to geolocate people, planes, and ships.
