Imagine you’re sending a piece of hardware to space on a satellite. Unless you’re buddy ... if it goes wrong once it’s launched. Robust design is key, so that even in the event of a failure ...

satellite bus. "Technology is just becoming available now so that we can actually build these systems sufficiently small and sufficiently cheap," said Trippe. He envisions the whole system to cost ...

The flight design builds on the heritage of the CSSWE ... This project will mature hardware designed by the PI, Dr. Scott Palo, as part of the NASA Small Satellite Technology Program to develop a high ...

LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...

Drake Beaman, a junior in aerospace engineering from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, who is the project’s chief engineer, said once the small, cube-shaped satellite is in space, it will test an ...