If any of you want _another_ satellite...

[Phil]

Now, I'm all in favour of access to space and space experiments, but this just sounds like a way of scattering space junk - and burning stuff up in the atmosphere. Frankly, I'd rather leave it at having my ashes scattered from a high-altitude balloon.

Phil M1GWZ


On 15 Nov 2011, at 23:07, Robert Stratton wrote:

> you may have a chance. 
> 
> There's an open hardware project on kickstarter. $300 will get you a board with a microcontroller and a radio and the ability to program your name and a short message into it. The plan, by a grad student at Cornell, is to pack a pile of these into a Cubesat and  scatter them. He plans eventually to get to putting local sensors on board and perhaps fabbing a custom chipset to bring the cost down. 
> 
> It sounds like he's trying to coordinate with NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites program, but it's not clear that he's depending on that working out. 
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/15/sprite_project/
> 
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251588730/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space
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