Meet the Warwick students creating a satellite to take worms into space

Engineering students at the University of Warwick have been working on a project to create a satellite that will be used to house microscopic worms in space.

Members of the university’s satellite engineering team (WUSAT) are travelling to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) learning facility in Redu, Belgium, to showcase their work.

The group has been working on a low earth orbit satellite known as a Cubesat, which will enable scientists at the University of Exeter to monitor activity of the worms in controlled conditions.