A Cal Poly CubeSat will ride on Wednesday Jan. 17 aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket on its second attempt to reach space. The rocket includes nine other NASA-sponsored small satellites on the
From Cal Poly’s PolySat lab, a scientist announces, “We’ve got a sail out!” prompting Bill Nye to let out a “Woot!” and offer a thumb’s up. Nye – known as “Bill Nye
Under spring clouds billowing over the roof of the Advanced Technologies Lab, a multidisciplinary team of Cal Poly Engineering students spent quarter break working on adjusting two CubeSat tracking antennas that monitor
Are you interested in working on hardware and software that will go to space? Consider joining PolySat, Cal Poly’s student-run satellite research lab. PolySat has launched 10 satellites since it was founded
Before it ever lifted off the planet, Cal Poly’s latest CubeSat had already traveled close to 7,000 miles. The PolySat team’s mini satellite – called ISX, or Ionospheric Scintillation explorer — was one of
When students gather at the University Union to watch a historic Mars landing Monday, members of the PolySat team will be there to boast about their own space exploration. The team will
