Bryan Klofas, Jason Anderson, and Kyle Leveque, "A Survey of Cubesat Communications Systems, November 2008 (accessed 16 February 2012). Analysis of flight data indicated that over a period of a week, an additional 5-10 meters of tether deployed. The short deployment was traced to a failure of the separation mechanism to eject the "Ted" pico satellite at full velocity. Presented at the CubeSat Developers Conference, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 10 April 2008