Students are working on projects all over campus, but not many can say their project leaves the planet. A student-made satellite developed at Cal Poly’s PolySat Lab is scheduled to launch into space on March 29 aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, according to PolySat Education and Outreach Director Sage Russell. Students […]
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Cal Poly CubeSat will launch ExoCube2: A “loaf of bread” sized satellite into space
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.
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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
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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.
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Student-built CubeSat DAVE successfully launches aboard Delta II
PolySat builds and integrates CubeSat DAVE, launches along with NASA’s satellite ICESat-2
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PolySat team gearing up for mission to Mars
PolySat is a student-run, independent research lab that develops CubeSats, or miniature satellites.
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Cal Poly students integrate first interplanetary CubeSats, launched on mission to Mars
Cal Poly CubeSat is making Mars exploration history as they aided in the operations of the first interplanetary CubeSats, which head to the red planet after launching the morning of May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. A CubeSat is an approximately 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters satellite which can be developed […]
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Cal Poly’s 7th cube satellite to fire off to space
CP7 is still in development mode and will undergo more testing.
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PolySat testing NASA technology
PolySat is building a new satellite for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to carry cameras into space — everybody smile. Cal Poly’s eighth CubeSat will test new onboard image processing software, former project manager Brian Tubb said.
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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.
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Students to send-up satellites
PolySat, Cal Poly’s satellite factory, is busy at work building small satellites called CubeSats to launch into space.