![University of Illinois engineering student Adam Newhouse holds a spool of the type of lightweight material used on the CubeSail satellite.](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/51572/image_from_ios_(4)__medium.jpg)
Satellite Designed By U Of I Students Set To Launch Into Space
The satellite known as CubeSail is actually two cube-shaped satellites, each weighing less than a five-pound bag of sugar and not much larger in size. It's expected to launch from a rocket at a site in New Zealand Wednesday night.