Systems engineering is a whole new kind of engineer. It's not just, you know, stove's pipe in your disciplines anyu more. You really have to have that broader view of hardware softer and again, the systems as well. An iphone has g p s and arenit has computers, it's got music, it's so it's a system of systems. Really is aof system. And maybe we. can learn something from them too.
How do satellites work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore CubeSats, space lasers, and the ecology of low Earth orbit with VP of Raytheon, Sandy Brown, and associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Kerri Cahoy.
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