CubeSat

Thousands of small objects are currently orbiting Earth, and while some are working satellites, a lot are junk. Cal Poly state university in San Luis…

Update July 9, 2019The deployment of Lightsail 2’s solar sails has been delayed until at least Sunday, July 21. Bruce Betts, Lightsail 2 mission program…

When NASA’s InSight mission to Mars took off from the Central Coast’s Vandenberg Air Force Base six months ago, two little satellites piggybacked along…

Space debris and the location of satellites is a top concern for the U.S. military's missile program which is why leaders from the Department of Defense…

UPDATE: Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 6:11 p.m.Engineers at Cal Poly are celebrating a win in Utah this week as their LightSail project was named "Mission…

The launch of a soil moisture monitoring satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base was in a 24-hour delay cycle on Thursday afternoon because of a problem…

A team of scientists at Cal Poly worked to test elements of a kite-like, solar-powered spacecraft Wednesday on the San Luis Obispo campus.It's called the…