Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
KySat-1 was an American satellite which was to have been operated by Kentucky Space. Designed to operate for eighteen to twenty four months it was lost in a launch failure in March 2011 after the Taurus rocket carrying it failed to achieve orbit.KySat-1 was a single-unit CubeSat picosatellite which was built as part of a programme to involve and interest schoolchildren in spaceflight.