ポケットガイガーが搭載された衛星は、Amazonの創業者Jeff Bezos氏が設立したBlue Origin社のNew Shepardによって、12月19日の現地時間午前10時42分28秒に、テキサス州西部にある宇宙船基地Launch Site Oneから離陸し、高度106 kmに到達しました。打ち上げの様子はBlue Origin社のサイトからご覧いただくことができます。
The Pocket Geiger Type 5 has been installed on the Serenity Orbital orbiting satellite developed by Teachers in Space, a non-profit STEM education organization in North America. The system is the brainchild of a 13-year-old middle school student from Maine, USA.
The satellite with the Pocket Geiger was launched by New Shepard, a Blue Origin company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, at 10:42:28 a.m. local time on December 19 from Launch Site One, a spacecraft base in West Texas, and reached an altitude of 106 km.
The launch can be viewed on Blue Origin's website.