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Kato Launch Squad is a team made up of several students from both Mankato East and Mankato West High Schools, in Mankato, MN.

We are one of ten teams selected from across the nation to participate in NASA’s Microgravity University for Educators.

 In March, four selected students and two educators will travel to Johnson Space Center to test the Satellite Launching Experimental Device (SLED) we have built, while the rest of the team will be staying back at HQ to support the team from home.

While there, we will have one goal: that is to successfully shoot a mock satellite, and make it into a moving target!


 Here is a Twitter photo of the team testing our system in the lobby at West.

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