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Science Missions Taking On Big-Time : Itty-Bitty Satellites
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Science Missions Taking On Big-Time : Itty-Bitty Satellites

Minor satellites are taking on a hotshot job in space investigation. CubeSats are little, just about double the size of a Rubik's Cube. As the name recommends, they're solid shape molded, 4 creeps on each side, and tip the scales at around 3 pounds. Be that as it may, with the scaling down of hardware, it's turned out to be conceivable to pack a modern crucial a little bundle. CubeSats have been around since 1999. Two teachers, Jordi Puig-Suari from California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs from Stanford University, needed to institutionalize the structure details of what they named "picosatellites." That would make it simpler for groups of understudies anyplace on the planet to team up. Also, they were modest enough that even understudies could make one. "I saw a...