The interesting challenge would be when the first cubesats launched by private persons reach the moon and send back a picture of earth rise. From what I can te

The interesting challenge would be when the first cubesats launched by private persons reach the moon and send back a picture of earth rise. From what I can tell, cubesats might be able to get ride-alongs on future launches towards the moon, so that is basically what this challenge would be hinging on. You'd have to figure out long distance communication, a simple LoRa module won't cut it. Your power needs to handle 3 days of travel, possibly without power until the sat gets deployed and sees the sun for the first time. You'd have to figure out how to orient and point a camera outside the stronger parts of the earth's magnetic field (commonly cubesats seem to rely on magnets to orient themselves). Then you'd have to bring a camera with decent quality and that works in vacuum along, snap a picture or ten and finally send them back. It would be awesome if I, as a private person, could organize and launch that.