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Budget Satellite

Posted by michael on from the take-notes-iridium dept.

codejunkie writes: "Check out this story from the Baltimore Sun. Apparently the middies were laughed at when they proposed a budget satellite for 50K. Boeing said it couldn't be done and gave them 250K. Well now they can build five more because the smart minds on the bay have built one."

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  1. Thank me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thanks to my patch on Sourceforge, slashdot is fixed.

    Slashcode is way too complicated now.

    -klerck

  2. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Slashdot editors are such dumb fucks. BTW, this thing sounds like it'll break in about 10 minutes. What a piece of shit.

    "Who needs a $50,000 antenna system when a metal tape measure might do the job?"

    Might? Yeah great there Mr. Army Man. Only problem is it'll cost about a million dollars to put that POS in orbit, so if it breaks the first day because of your shit design, it wasn't too much of a deal now was it?