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PmWiki: Rick Fleeter

Pioneer in the design of small satellites. Called "the father of microspace".¹ Faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - University of Rome La Sapienza, in the program for Master of Satellite Systems and Services² and a professor of engineering at Brown University.³

Notes

¹ "Microspace Paternity Denied", SpaceDaily.com, January 2001 ⇑

² Prof. Richard Fleeter ⇑

³ Courses - Richard. D. Fleeter ⇑

Further reading

• Rick Fleeter's blog "Traveling with the Thermodynamicist" (N.B. some in Italian.)
• The Logic of Microspace, Rick Fleeter, Microcosm Inc., 2000, ISBN 1881883116