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It's fairly common nowadays. Companies like Nanoracks [1] specialize in this. Obviously this can only be done for cubesats. They are put into orbit simply by b
by Voloskaya 6y ago
It's fairly common nowadays. Companies like Nanoracks [1] specialize in this.
Obviously this can only be done for cubesats.
They are put into orbit simply by being ejected at the right angle and speed from the ISS.
[1]: https://nanoracks.com/products/iss-deployment/ https://nanoracks.com/products/iss-deployment/
- filereaper 6y agoWow, this is super interesting. I didn't realize launching satellites had become so turnkey now where you don't have all the friction of dealing with NASA or any large space agency. Nanoracks has an interesting list of customers, like Adidas and Double-Tree by Hilton?!
- Rebelgecko 6y agoNanoracks does commercial things on the ISS other than cubesat launches. IIRC the Doubletree thing was they sent up an oven and had an astronaut bake cookies using their recipe
- GordonS 6y agoPart of me is impressed by the economics of it (I had no idea such things were so affordable), and the rest of me is embarrassed by the almost flippant use of space tech...
- simonh 6y agoI think Astronauts deserve the occasional freshly baked cookie too. Food preparation in space is arguably a serious business.
- nickik 6y agoCheckout out: https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/ https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/ Probably the cheapest way to launch things. However, SpaceX has no interest in dealing with everybody that wants to launch a cubsat so you have to go to an integrator.