The Nov. 14 Launch of ISSAC*
	Senator Dorgan's message about ISSAC
	Slideshow about ISSAC's construction and launch

What is ISSAC*?
ISSAC* (International Space Station Agriculture Camera)— designed and crafted to exacting NASA space flight standards by students from UND departments will capture on-demand images of land and other topographic features across the upper Midwest. These images will be used as a decision support system resource by farmers, ranchers, tribal resource managers, and researchers. Among many other uses, ISSAC multispectral images can be used to analyze crops, forest resources, and other plants. Educators also will have access to these images for in-classroom use as part of environmental, geography, and related curricula.

Who developed it?
A high-tech specialty camera designed, built, and delivered to NASA by a team of University of North Dakota (UND) students and faculty, ISSAC is set for a trip aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour for delivery to the International Space Station. This is Shuttle mission number STS-126. Students and faculty involved in the project came from four UND colleges — Arts and Sciences, College of Business & Public Administration, John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, School of Engineering & Mines — and eight departments: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Space Studies, Earth Systems Science & Policy, Business and Public Administration, Physics, Theatre Arts.

When and where will the launch take place?
The launch will take place at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday, November 14, at approximately 6:55 Central Standard Time.

UND Hat Trick in Space
This will be the third UND-connected space mission this year. In March the UND's Energy & Environmental Research Center sent specially designed materials into space. And in May UND graduate and astronaut Karen Nyberg made her first Shuttle trip.

Other UND space-related programs to explore are: a space suit for Mars, North Dakota's first rocket - Frozen Fury, an interactive training space capsule, the North Dakota Space Grant Consortium housed at UND, the nation's only distance education Space Studies master's degree program and more.

* ISSAC was formally named AgCam