When David Klumpar arrived at Montana State University to establish the Space Science and Engineering Lab in November 2000, the retired Lockheed Martin aerospace engineer was greeted by eager students.rn"I walked into my new office in Bozeman, turned around and there were four graduate students who said, 'We heard we are going to build satellites,"' Klumpar said.rnThat eager student work force combined with a lack of space hardware or facilities convinced Klumpar that the only possible course of action was to begin building CubeSats, miniature satellites that weigh 1 kilogram or less and measure 10 centimeters on a side.
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