Garrett Skrobot is considered a hero in the cubesat community. Long before cubesats were widely adopted by universities, government agencies and nonprofit organizations as inexpensive tools for space-based research, Skrobot began searching for ways to enable the miniature satellites to piggyback on NASA launch vehicles. 

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