The Aerospace Corp. did not set out to establish an organization focused on designing and building miniature satellites. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, engineers who began building spacecraft weighing a few kilograms or even less worked in multiple departments. That changed in 2007 when the company established its Mechanics Research Department. "At the time, the Mechanics Research Department seemed like a good home for microsatellite activity," said Richard Welle, who led the department and now serves as Microsatellite Systems Department director. "Then the microsatellite activity just outpaced everything else in that department."
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