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This reminds me of how cubesats kind of got off the ground because some launch commpanies allowed extra spare capacity to be sold or donated to student projects
by cromwellian 6y ago
This reminds me of how cubesats kind of got off the ground because some launch commpanies allowed extra spare capacity to be sold or donated to student projects.
- hinkley 6y agoI couldn't tell which was the cart and which the horse, but the SpaceX telecommunications satellite launch I saw had a rideshare arrangement going on. I suspect what happened is that someone only needed half a payload, and SpaceX filled the rest with their own stuff. But the PR person made it sound like the opposite was happening. I'm not sure what happens when they reach full capacity on their sat network. Space for research projects, or launching surplus consumables?