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What sort of analysis was used to figure out the power and protection requirements you needed to make these viable? Are these within reach of an individual to
by haliax 13y ago
What sort of analysis was used to figure out the power and protection requirements you needed to make these viable?
Are these within reach of an individual to build, if not to launch?
If I build one, how do I launch it?
Why do the signals need to be crowdsourced over Ham?
What are your personal favorite/most cool applications for lots of cheap satellites?
- spiritplumber 13y ago* Mostly trial and error, surprisingly -- the idea was to keep everything in low power mode as much as possible, and see if solar panels would let us keep charge. Turns out that they can; one of the sats has panels. Another just has batteries and will die down. * Yes, definitely. One of the sats was even hand soldered. * You talk to NASA, the cost to launch one commercially would be around $20K. We mostly piggybacked on a rocket that was being tested. * Because there was no budget for following these things on the ground, honestly :) Plus it gets people involved. * We were talking about having these things detect circular cloud formations to indicate a possibly forming hurricane, and having a "real" weather sat take a better look on its next pass.
- syedkarim 13y agoIf I paid the $20k commercial price, would I be guaranteed a slot on a rocket? And do paying CubeSat customers bump off those that were given free tickets? Is anyone else offering reliable, commercial CubeSat launches for that price (or less)?
- spiritplumber 13y agoSadly no. The phonesats waited in a box for more than a year in order to find room.