BLACKSBURG, Va., June 18 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
When the Virginia Spaceport Authority recently launched a rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, the work of electrical and computer engineering students made it possible to monitor launch pad operations across multiple sites in one system.
"For the first time, we were able to see in one system one launch pad supporting another," said retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Roosevelt Mercer Jr., chief executive officer and executive director of Virginia Spaceport Authority, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia that owns and operates the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. "We couldn't do that b...