NASA EDGE Vodcast Online!

The previously mentioned NASA EDGE teams tour was a huge success!

Do you have questions about CubeSats? Ever curious how Cal Poly is involved? NASA EDGE’s vodcast answers these questions and more. Video link and transcript here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/nasaedge/NE00031413_54_CubeSat.html

The video starts with NASA’s Garrett Skrobot starts with the educational aspects of CubeSats and NASA’s involvement in providing launches. The video follows up with a tour of our lab, including interviews with our advisor Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari and our Program Manager Brian Tubb.

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Solar Cell Practice

This last Thursday, we started iterating on a solar cell application method originally proposed by AeroSpace Corporation. Their excellent guide can be found here.

We had approximately ten students assist, with six eventually working in the clean room. The team consisted of older members such as Craig Francis (IPEX Project Lead), Jeff Weaver (Junior EE), Nicholas Weiser (Grad EE), as well as younger members in their Freshman and Sophomore years. Members of CP7, IPEX, CP9, and ExoCube were present.

NASA EDGE Filming

Our lab is going to be on NASA EDGE, a vodcast which reveals the latest and greatest in NASA labs. Today, they are interviewing our advisor Jordi Puig-Suari and several students. The past, present, and future of CubeSats will be discussed, as well as humanizing the excellent student engineers who make it all possible.

Video will be linked once it goes online.

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