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P-POD and RocketPod on Steroids
Title: CEO
Phone: (626) 798-2436
Email: rridenoure1@eclipticenterprises.com
Title: CFO
Phone: (626) 798-2436
Email: jscully1@eclipticenterprises.com
Contact: J Puig-Suari
Address:
Phone: (805) 756-6479
Type: Nonprofit College or University
Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation (Pasadena, CA) and California State Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo, CA) will conduct exploratory and advanced development of a family of concepts enabling cost-effective, recurring opportunities for launching very small (<20 kg) `microsat' to `nanosat' to `picosat' secondary payloads on existing and emerging U.S. launch vehicles and spacecraft while also allowing for deployment and capable proximity operations of such systems around their host platforms once in space. The proposed effort starts with elements of the proven "P-POD" launch system for CubeSat-class (10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm; ~2 kg) space systems overseen at Cal Poly and elements of the novel RocketPodT CubeSat-class launch system invented (and now patented) by Ecliptic. RocketPod is derived from Ecliptic's very successful RocketCamT family of onboard video and imaging systems for use with rockets and spacecraft. We start with these concepts, refine them, and also scale up a bit, like "P-POD and RocketPod on steroids."
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