page_title: Simulation-to-Flight 1
section_title: First Image Received
hierarchical_section_title: Simulation-to-Flight 1 / Milestones / First Image Received
caption_attribution_description: English: STF-1 First Captured Image - Sun reflecting off of VHF antenna
context_page_description: Simulation-to-Flight 1 is a microsatellite built by the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia with the collaboration of the West Virginia Space Grants Consortium and West Virginia University.
  STF-1 was launched on 16 December 2018 on an Electron rocket as part of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites Mission 19...
context_section_description: 3 January 2019 | STF-1's First Captured Image (The Sun is seen reflecting off STF-1's VHF antenna)
caption: The first image received from STF-1 was the sun reflecting off the VHF antenna
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