Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100901/10193510858/dailydirt-diy-space-satellites.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100901/10193510858/dailydirt-diy-space-satellites.shtml Student Spaceflight Experiment Program), but now almost anyone can participate in a space experiment. Here are just a few examples.

• SkyCube is a satellite project on Kickstarter with $1 sponsoring 10 seconds of the mission. For just $6, you can broadcast six 120-character messages from space! [url]
• Whatever you can fit inside a ping pong ball can be sent up to the edge of space (100,000 feet) -- and anyone can make a PongSat. Presumably, though, they won't let you fill your ping pong ball with a combustible propellant and an altimeter trigger.... [url]
• The ArduSat Mission has completed its Kickstarter campaign and put up a list of experiment ideas that could be run on its Arduino-based satellite. Some of the suggestions for experiments/apps aren't too exciting, but there's also a prize of $1,500 for the most innovative experiment or app for the ArduSat -- so someone is bound to come up with a few more ideas. [url]

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