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it would be awesome for this to become popular enough to see teams of people race each other out of the solar system
by 7373737373 1y ago
it would be awesome for this to become popular enough to see teams of people race each other out of the solar system
- warrenm 1y agohow much of a propulsion system could you feasibly pack in a cubesat?
- geerlingguy 1y agoVery very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization.
- notahacker 1y agoEnough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system
- abirch 1y agoI frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe.