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Now if we could just get some digipeaters included...<br>
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From: National Science Foundation Update <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nsf-update@nsf.gov"><nsf-update@nsf.gov></a><br>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:31:09 -0500 (CDT)<br>
Subject: National Science Foundation Awards Contract to Build
"CubeSats"<br>
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Science Foundation Awards Contract to Build "CubeSats"</a>
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alt="Illustration of CubeSats used in space weather and atmospheric research orbiting the Earth."
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<p>A new series of CubeSats, small satellites in the shapes of cubes,
will soon take to the skies. Using the CubeSats, scientists will
conduct space weather research impossible with other instruments. </p>
<p>The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a contract to SRI
International, an independent non-profit research and development
organization based in Menlo Park, Calif., to carry out the first space
weather CubeSat mission. </p>
<p>CubeSats are tiny satellites with dimensions of<span> ...</span> <br>
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alt="Read More">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112341&govDel=USNSF_51</a>
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