Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
FalconSAT-2 was a satellite built by students of the United States Air Force Academy as part of the FalconSAT programme. It was intended to have been placed into low Earth orbit to study the effects of plasma on communications with spacecraft however it failed to reach orbit due to a malfunction of its carrier rocket.The FalconSAT-2 programme started in late 2000 as a followup to FalconSAT-1.