To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 15:07 in Astronomy & 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.

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