Students call space station with home-built radio
Four Toronto college students have accomplished a technological feat that their teachers are calling a first. The Humber College seniors made contact with the International Space Station Monday with a radio system they designed and built themselves.
School officials say that, to their knowledge, that's never been accomplished by students at the college level. The project got off the ground about a year ago as the students looked for a way to apply knowledge gained from their radio communication courses.
After an anxious few hours of waiting for their big moment — and a few last-second technical glitches — the team sent their signal into space at about 12:29 p.m. Monday.
