YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 18, ARMENPRESS. The device (payload) designed by Ayb School students was sent into space on November 18 by Skyroot Aerospace’s subsonic rocket of India.

The device with a 197gm payload was placed on a suborbital rocket and sent to the height of 125km in open space. In other words, it crossed the Karman Line, a presumed boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.

The device will stay in space for 2-3 minutes. It will collect data on the rocket’s flight path, temperature, pressure change, speed, acceleration, and the intensity of ultraviolet radiation and ozone concentration. Afterward, it will get back to earth along with the rocket.

Ayb school’s Ad Astra Project-Based Learning Engineering Club declared a victory in the Kemurdzhian Youth Space Challenge 2022, a nationwide student competition that brought together young engineers aged 12-21.

In all, 4 teams made it to the finals. Ayb School’s Ad Astra team includes alumni Andre Vardanyan, Elina Melkonyan, Hayk Piliposyan, and 12th-grader Davit Vanyan. The mentors are Engineering Club head Vazgen Gabrielyan and Ayb School alumnus Ruben Kerobyan.