Big Hopes for Tiny Satellites

shelflife writes: "ST5, according to NASA, will usher in a new era of small, smart spacecraft. Why send a human into space when you can send a computer? And why send something almost as heavy as a UNIVAC if a laptop will do? Compact nanosatellites will have everything you'd want in a full-size, luxury satellite. They will have the attitudinal and navigational capabilities needed to maintain proper orbits, and they will be capable of complex, high-bandwidth communications functions."

Comments

If we're sending MicroSATs to space

[Sagarian]

can MicroSOFT be far behind?

Maybe that's why my Win98 machine is so flaky sometimes. Microsoft has been building solar flare disturbance simulators into the Windows kernel since 3.1...

Why send human into space if can send a computer

[Geek Technica]

hmm not a windows raning computer 1/2 way up it wud blue screen. LOL ok computers in space thats cool but i like to see more humans in space like to Mars. and thay can send Bin Laden to the sun on the way. :)