Cal Poly sets its sights on tiny satellites

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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 12th, 2012 / Comments Off on Cal Poly sets its sights on tiny satellites

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NASA has begun to pour money into researching a new breed of tiny satellites developed by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo just as the school has licensed some of the technology to a company co-founded by a professor and aerospace veterans. So-called CubeSats are four-inch cubes that weigh about three pounds. They drastically reduce the…

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