Ireland's first ever satellite will be launched into space at the end of the month.
EIRSAT-1 was designed, built and tested at UCD and is making it's way to California where it will be sent into orbit on the 29th of November.
The miniature cube satellite spent six years in development and will be the first from these shores to leave the Earth's atmosphere.
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Dr Ronan Wall is the manager of the UCD Centre for Space Research which helped bring the spacecraft into being.
He explains what its aim is once it blasts off:
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