News-Gazette (Dec. 12) -- Late tonight, a group of University of Illinois engineers will gather around a computer screen to watch their baby take flight, then head out to a field north of Urbana at 3 a.m. to pick up its first "squawks" as it passes over the Midwest. The small "CubeSail" satellite, more than a decade in the making, is set to launch sometime after 10 p.m. from New Zealand, hitching a ride on the Electron rocket from the commercial space company Rocket Lab. Also: WILL (Dec. 12), NASA (Dec. 13)