Cal Poly CubeSat is sending its 12th mission into space on Sunday, Jan. 17. They will launch their small satellite — the ExoCube 2 — from the wing of a modified Boeing 747 plane mid-flight.
Cal Poly is the first university to assist the Air Force in monitoring objects orbiting earth
Cal Poly students will now be helping the United States Strategic Command track more than 23,000 small objects orbiting Earth in the first university partnership of its kind. As the amount of satellites and space debris — like rocket bodies…
CubeSat DAVE sends back first high-res photo of Earth
“[Polysat’s] missions conduct useful scientific research in orbit, and it is a unique experience to get to work on this kind of thing as an undergraduate student,” a erospace engineering and physics senior Grigory Heaton said
Cal Poly students helped integrate first CubeSat to photograph Mars, image released
Students from the on-campus organization PolySat helped integrate two CubeSats which just became the first spacecrafts of their kind to photograph Mars.
Student-built CubeSat DAVE successfully launches aboard Delta II
PolySat builds and integrates CubeSat DAVE, launches along with NASA’s satellite ICESat-2
PolySat team gearing up for mission to Mars
PolySat is a student-run, independent research lab that develops CubeSats, or miniature satellites.
Cal Poly’s 7th cube satellite to fire off to space
CP7 is still in development mode and will undergo more testing.
Mustang News, Oct. 7, 2014: Total lunar eclipse, Cubesat launch
Mustang News anchor Olivia DeGennaro covers today’s top stories at Cal Poly.
Photos: Bill Nye ‘the Science Guy’ visits Cal Poly
Bill Nye, “the Science Guy”, made a visit to Cal Poly Wednesday, for a planned demonstration of a solar sailing satellite built in collaboration with students.
Toaster-sized launcher to pop out NASA satellites
Cal Poly students will mark their first mission with NASA when their satellite launcher is sent to space out of Vandenberg Air Force Base on Feb. 23.
Poly students build satellite
On Oct. 30, satellites designed by about 25 Cal Poly engineering students in the CubeSat lab will be launched out of Wallops Island, Va., at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility.