RECENT NEWS
2019 May 13
This is an excellent capsule summary of the LightSail program's history and current status2019 May 07
Ecliptic supplied an onboard RocketCam video system to capture the deployment of the novel R3D2 RF antenna2019 May 02
Ecliptic is the commercial partner with ASU for their Remote Acoustic Sensor experiment2019 Apr 18
Every Cygnus cargo vehicle is outfitted with an Ecliptic RocketCam onboard video system to capture solar array deployment, ISS approach and CubeSat deployments
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Jun 22
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3U CubeSat integrated with Prox 1 (launched on Falcon Heavy / STP-2 mission)
LightSail-2 solar sailing demo - Aug 4 - 8
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33rd Conference on Small Satellites
Logan, UT – Organized and Hosted by Utah State University - Oct 19
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #12 (NG-12, on Antares 230) (approx. date) - Apr 15
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Cygnus
Northrop Grumman CRS mission #13 (NG-13, on Antares 230) (approx. date)
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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