Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 298, from Saskatchewan

to space.

I'm Gary Jordan.

I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, students,

ultimately, you know what's going on in the world, the human space light, and more.

On board the International Space Station right now is a CubeSat or a miniature satellite that's

about to be deployed, and it has an interesting mission and background.

The CubeSat is called RadSatSK, or Radiation Satellite Saskatchewan.

It's a small satellite with two major objectives to test a new type of dosimeter, or radiation

sensor that is smaller and cheaper, and to test a radiation shielding technology derived

from melanin, which is found in many organisms, including people.

Now just as interesting as the investigation itself is where it came from.

This CubeSat will be the first satellite from Saskatchewan in Canada.

And to get to this point where the satellite at this time has just successfully deployed

from the International Space Station, it was quite a journey.

So to help us understand the story behind this CubeSat, and how it all became possible,

we're bringing in Dustin Priest, RadSatSK technical project manager at the University of

Saskatchewan, and Arles Sidluski, president of the University of Saskatchewan Space Design

Team.

So grab yourself a Saskatoon pie, as we dig into the story and science of RadSatSK.

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