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

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 14:42 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...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net