Personal Satellites
August 12th, 2009
Interorbital Systems is selling satellite kits for the low, low price of $8000—this includes launching the satellite into a low-Earth orbit that will be maintained for a few weeks. The kit has quite a bit of pre-configured hardware and software, but you can send pretty much whatever you want as long as it meets the size and weight requirements. I’m thinking this would be a great way to make a marriage proposal.
Link #1: http://spacefellowship.com/…
(via Slashdot)
Link #2: http://interorbital.com/…
[link]Eric Shefferman Says:
August 16th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Wow. It’s nice to know that anyone with a little bit of cash can perform upper atmosphere “Biological experiments” — that should make the world a lot safer!
I don’t have any idea how to say that non-sarcastically. Hope someone there puts some thought into what they allow onboard.
[link]Chad Cloman Says:
August 16th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I think the expectation is that everything will burn up completely on re-entry.