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For the low price of only $80,000, you can launch your own 1U cubesat with Rocket Lab [1]. For that price, you can launch a 10x10x10cm satellite, with a maximum
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
For the low price of only $80,000, you can launch your own 1U cubesat with Rocket Lab [1]. For that price, you can launch a 10x10x10cm satellite, with a maximum weight of 1.3 kg, into a 500 km sun synchronous orbit.
[1] https://www.rocketlabusa.com/book-my-launch/ https://www.rocketlabusa.com/book-my-launch/
- matte_black 8y agoHow long would a satellite like that last before being destroyed?
- mlindner 8y agoDepends on the orbit it's in. If it's high enough, it will last long past your death. Whether it keeps working that long, probably not. Radiation damage accumulates reasonably rapidly and most cubesats don't live more than a few years, if that.
- ridgeguy 8y agoWell, it's complicated, but maybe 25 years. Here's a reference that's totally on point: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/DevelopersWorkshop2011/8_Leveque_Orbital_Decay.pdf http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/Developer... "An Evaluation of CubeSat Orbital Decay" - everything you wanted to know (and more!) about the topic.