MAKE: Magazine - $8,000 DIY satellite kit

The MAKE blog carries a short item on a satellite you can launch for just $8,000.

The plan is to launch small Tube Sats on a Neptune 30 launcher from the island of Tonga in the Pacific and the first lauch is slated for the end of the year.

These satellite will go into a very low earth orbit and would probably have a lifetime of a few months.

Read the MAKE magazine blog article at
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/
8000_diy_satellite_kit.html

CubeSat to launch on Neptune 30
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2010/
miniromit_1.htm

Interorbital
http://www.interorbital.com/

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