What's a CubeSat & what does it have to do with #utulsa? 🛰️ 🌎 NASA is interested in building a communications network of satellites positioned around our planet that relay signals out to and back from stations in space. TU’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Peter LoPresti, an expert in fiber-optic communication systems, is working to make that happen. Supported by a grant from NASA and in collaboration with John O’Hara and his research group at okstate, LoPresti is working toward the launch of Oklahoma’s first CubeSat. 📐 This satellite will be comprised of three cubes, each measuring 10 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm. Its chief purpose is to study the transmission of data by laser beam between the earth and a satellite. #utulsa #tulsa #oklahoma #nasa #space #science #laser #fiberoptic