Editing Micro-Space (section)

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| name = Micro-Space
| former_name = Spectron Instrument Corporation
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| founded = {{Start date|1977|02}} in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], USA
| founder = Richard P. Speck
| defunct = {{End date|2011}}
| fate = Dissolved
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'''Micro-Space''' was an [[aerospace]] corporation based in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], founded in February 1977 by Richard P. Speck under the name ''Spectron Instrument Corporation''.  The corporation changed its name to "Micro-Space, Inc." in 1998.  It was dissolved in 2011, following the death of the founder.

In addition to funding and building a number of its own spacecraft and rockets, Micro-Space was a component supplier to the [[emergence|emerging]]<ref name=sn20120813>
{{cite news |title=Cubist Movement |newspaper=Space News |page=30 |date=2012-08-13 |quote=''When [the cubesat was invented] a little more than a decade ago, [it was] never imagined that the tiny satellites would be adopted by universities, companies and government agencies around the world.  They simply wanted to design a spacecraft with capabilities similar to [[Sputnik]] that graduate student could design, build, test and operate.  For size, the professors settled on a 10-centimeter cube because it was large enough to accommodate a basic communications payload, [[Solar panels on spacecraft|solar panels]] and a battery.''}}</ref> [[CubeSat]] industry.<ref name=woellert2011>{{cite journal |last=Woellert|first=Kirk|author2=Ehrenfreund, Picco, Hertzfeld |title=Cubesats: Cost-effective science and technology platforms for emerging and developing nations |journal=Advances in Space Research |date=15 February 2011 |volume=47 |series=ISSN 0273-1177 |issue=4 |pages=663 |doi=10.1016/j.asr.2010.10.009  |url=http://www2.gwu.edu/~spi/assets/docs/Woellert_cubesats.pdf |accessdate=2014-02-28 |bibcode=2011AdSpR..47..663W }}</ref>