To Widen Path To Outer Space, Engineers Build Small Satellite
Posted on November 16th, 2008 by NewsFeed in Space
It’s not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the “pico satellite” being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer space — one where sending satellites into orbit is as routine and inexpensive as shipping goods around the world.
