RECENT NEWS
2019 Feb 01
Read about Ecliptic's role on this novel mission2018 Dec 03
Ecliptic-supplied avionics controlled most of the smallsat deployments. More in-depth news to follow ...2018 Nov 11
Good pic here of the NABEO-1 hosted payload on the Electron 3rd stage2018 Nov 11
A successful launch, including the Ecliptic-Rocket Lab Hosted Payload Program pathfinder payload, NABEO-1
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Apr 17
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #11 (NG-11, on Antares 230) (approx. date) - Apr 23 - 25
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Spring CubeSat Developers Workshop
San Luis Obispo, CA – Organized and Hosted by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - Jun 15
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3U CubeSat integrated with Prox 1 (launched on Falcon Heavy / STP-2 mission)
LightSail-2 solar sailing demo (approx. date) - Aug 4 - 8
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33rd Conference on Small Satellites
Logan, UT – Organized and Hosted by Utah State University
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Riki Munakata
COO
Riki has a strong foundation is mechanical engineering and analysis, subsystem- and system-level spacecraft testing and small spacecraft project/program management.
He is responsible for most of Ecliptic's day-to-day technical operations and for coordinating several aspects of the firm's project-level customer relationships, staffing and facilities issues He also contributes to the firm's R&D planning efforts and to various technical contracts, including lead systems engineer on the twin LightSail 3U CubeSats.
Before coming to Ecliptic, as a graduate student Riki worked as Deputy Manager of their pioneering CubeSat Program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, setting the widely adopted standards for this global initiative. While in this role he was the technical lead for all activities and also coordinated all related student activities in support of the program.
- M.S. and B.S. Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo