![]() ![]() “In other words, it’s a spacecraft selfie cam.” “It’s a satellite that is designed to take pictures of another satellite,” said BYU engineering professor David Long. ![]() The 10-centimeter CubeSat, which includes contributions from more than 60 students over a five-year period, is outfitted with cameras on all six sides and will make it possible to inexpensively detect damage on the exterior of a spacecraft that cannot be seen in other ways. Video produced by Julie Walker filmed by Brian Wilcox.Īfter years of engineering, testing and coordinating with engineers from NASA’s Launch Services Program, Brigham Young University students have created a cube satellite that will launch into space on an official NASA mission later this year. “We wish we had won it.BYU "spacecraft selfie cam" is ready to launch. “It was a heck of a football game,” Hoke said. That delivered the program’s first bowl berth in 12 years - a 35-14 win over Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl - and started an unprecedented decade-long run of bowl appearances. SDSU won four straight games and five of its last seven regular-season contests after the BYU loss. Hoke didn’t answer that directly this week, choosing instead to compliment the leadership of SDSU’s senior class as well as solid play from quarterback Ryan Lindley and his receivers - led by Vincent Brown and DeMarco Sampson - and running back Ronnie Hillman. “You don’t ever want that to happen again.”ĭid the loss spur the Aztecs on to bigger things? “If there was any way to get the game back or started again at this point, I’d love to,” Sterk said, “but there’s no real precedent for that, so I think this is the appropriate action to take at this time. Such a ban previously had only extended to on-field officials and the head replay official who makes the final decision on whether to overturn a call after a replay review. Jim Sterk, who was SDSU’s AD then, said conference officials told him “it was human error somehow and the video official did not see the video everyone else saw.”īy the end of the week, the Mountain West announced a new policy banning school employees or alumni from working as one of the three replay officials for games in which their school was a participant. Mountain West officials did not comment on what happened in the booth, which is consistent with its policy when it comes to officiating. The seriousness of the situation drew national attention, and, in fact, Mountain West athletic directors had an emergency meeting on the matter. It was not reported whether Bunn influenced the decision on the review in question, but it did raise the perception of bias. I just know the feed was available to them and they didn’t use it.”Ī perception of ineptness turned to conflict of interest concerns as the week progressed, when it was revealed a BYU athletic department official and a Cougars alum were among the three members of the replay crew that botched the call.īYU video coordinator Chad Bunn, a BYU graduate, was the technical advisor to the head replay official.īunn hung up on a reporter that week when he was contacted for comment. I don’t know if the technical official gave the feed to the replay official. “I don’t know where they fell short,” Hoke said. It wasn’t clear then whether the call was missed because of human error, a breakdown in communication or technical difficulties, although it was confirmed replay officials had the same video feed as TV viewers who saw evidence of a fumble. Two days after the game, Mountain West officials suspended the three-man crew that worked the replay booth for missing an obvious call. The story would grow legs, as they say, over the following week as more and more facts on the matter came to light. “I wouldn’t have challenged it if I didn’t think we got it,” he said after the game. Hoke, SDSU’s head coach then as now, seemed upset but not outraged at the time. Two of SDSU’s most painful memories against BYU are imprinted on the brain by the final scores. 18 BYU (9-1) on Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium. ![]() ![]() SDSU (4-3) returns to Provo for the first time since the fumble that wasn’t when it plays No. “If I remember, there was a replay that didn’t go our way that we would have liked for it to go our way, obviously.” “I thought we played pretty well up there. “It’s been a long time,” SDSU head coach Brady Hoke said this week. More than that, it was another SDSU defeat to throw onto the pile of frustrating losses - and a tie - over the years against the Cougars. BYU scored five plays later, taking a 10-point lead in what became a 24-21 win.Īfter the game, there was frustration that replay officials didn’t see things the way SDSU did but also the realization that challenges often don’t work out. ![]()
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