When it's ready for launch, your typical spacecraft is transported to the launch vehicle in a special truck, or on its own airplane, or in a railway car. It usually has to be packed in something at least the size of a shed. Carl Brandon, a physics professor at Vermont Technical College, stowed his in the overhe ad compartment of a commercial airliner. "It took me about two minutes to go through security," he says. When they heard what had just gone through the X-ray machine, the TSA agents at Burlington's airport flocked to him. "They all wanted to hear about the CubeSat," says Brandon.
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