Student team wins satellite prize

[Rick]

A team of students from Shrewsbury school has won a contest to design an experiment that will fly on a British-built satellite in 2010.

Their winning entry is a small instrument called POISE, which will measure variations in the ionosphere - the outermost layer of the atmosphere.

These variations can affect the accuracy and safety of satellite navigation (sat-nav) systems.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7657768.stm