In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Farah Alibay, an early career engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on NASA's first-ever interplanetary cubesat — a space-worthy communications relay about the size of a jumbo cereal box.

SHOW NOTES:

NASA's website for the Mars Cube One (MarCO) satellites (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php) Farah helped design.

PDF of Farah's doctoral thesis (http://ssl.mit.edu/files/website/theses/PhD-2014-AlibayFarah.pdf) at MIT. Spoiler alert: Involves small spacecraft.

Theatrical trailer for The Fast and the Furious (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJz2TJAPjw), featuring the sickest Toyotas you've ever seen.