RECENT NEWS
2019 Jul 09
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Follow the mission here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/?keywords=lightsail2019 Jul 02
The LightSail-2 mission begins!2019 Jun 25
Ejection of LightSail-2 from the Prox-1 spacecraft will be in several days
UPCOMING EVENTS
- 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) - Jun 15
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North American Eagle 800-mph supersonic car
World land speed record attempt (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