Fri, 14 Nov 2003
Buddy, can you spare $9.5M?
No, this
is not a spoof -- SpaceDev are for real, and they
really are auctioning a low-cost microsatellite launch
on eBay. Now, there are limits to what you can do with a
satellite massing just 60 kilograms, but they're not as
tightly constrained as they used to be; for example, the
Voyager-1 science platform massed about 70 Kg back in 1977, but
today you could squish it down into 2-3 kilos. We've come
a long way.
(I think this one should be filed in the "20 reasons this
really is the 21st century" drawer.)
Now, if only someone would actually win the goddamn X-Prize,
we could get this century back on track again ...
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