First Photos of Cubesats in Space
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- What does a CubeSat look like in orbit? Now the Cal Poly College of Engineering -- and the world -- knows the answer.
Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering Professor and CubeSat project advisor Jordi Puig-Suari shared photos of CP-4 (one of Cal Poly's CubeSats) taken by AeroCube-2 (Aerospace Corporation's CubeSat) shortly after deployment from the P-POD during the successful April launch.
"That is what a 10 centimeter box looks like 780 kilometers from the ground," Puig-Suari said. "At Cal Poly the sky is no longer the limit -- and we have proof!"
The CubeSat Project is an international collaboration of over 80 universities, high schools, and private firms developing picosatellites containing scientific, private, and government payloads.
Fourteen CubeSats designed and built by students at various universities in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world were launced into space aboard a Dnepr-1 LV rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in April.
Built to specifications developed by Cal Poly and Stanford University’s Space Systems Development Laboratory, all the picosatellites will be launched from the Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD) designed and built at Cal Poly.
For more details visit http://cubesat.calpoly.edu/
Read the Cal Poly Magazine Story on the CubeSat program
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