Unless they’re a member of Mrs. Frizzle’s class, most students don’t get to touch space in any meaningful way. But that hasn’t stopped it from inspiring generations of kids to enter the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

As of today, there is a way for students to get a little bit closer to space. Education startup Ardusat released a platform that integrates small satellites known as cubesats into high school curriculums, and it includes the chance for high school students to run experiments on them.

“Physics, a lot of it is abstract. You can read it in a book and it just doesn’t make sense,” said Rachell Romanoff, a teacher at Bakersfield Christian High School in California who will use the platform in her AP Physics curriculum this year. “This is something [students] can see and do, and they’re just really excited.”

Romanoff plans to teach both physics and…