18 Jan 2010

Want to launch your own satellite? You can!

Interorbital Systems of California have introduced a kit to allow you to build your own satellite! The price of the Tubesat kit ($8000) includes the cost of a launch into space as well.

2 comments:

Randa Milliron said...

January edition of SatMagazine has details of projects on the launch manifest:
http://www.satmagazine.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?number=270243900

Roger G3XBM said...

This is fascinating stuff. The price, although high for an individual, is not bad for a club or interest group. One suggestion I heard was for an LF active probe RX on 136 or 500kHz and TXing the received signal back to earth.