Students Design A Satellite Via Internet

Roland Piquepaille writes "A group of 250 students from many European universities has collectively designed a satellite by using a dedicated news server and weekly chats on Internet. By using the Web, the virtual team was able to move from design to construction in less than a year. The SSETI Express is currently under integration in one of the technology centers of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Netherlands. Only a few selected members of the team will attend the launch which will be part of the Russian mission Cosmos DMC-3 in May 2005. The SSETI Express will embark three mini 'cubesats' for specific experiments while the main satellite will test a propulsion system and act as a transponder for amateur radio users. I sure hope that this collaborative action will be successful. Read this summary for more details."

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Roland Piquepaille!!!

[funny-jack]

Can we please have a Roland Piquepaille section so we can block stories submitted by this yahoo? Please?

Re:Roland the Whammer

[Mannerism]

Roland Piquepaille? Isn't that the guy people bitch about, even though bitching about it gives Slashdot more reason to keep him?

More reason to keep him? That should be easy enough to fix. Just make it your policy to mod down as overrated any comment posted to a Piquepaille story that's not a Piquepaille criticism, and encourage others to do the same. I suspect that that would make his submissions of much less value to Slashdot.

Personally, I think the guy's abusing the system and that /.'s editors deserve a swift kick in the ass for not at least editing out the gratuitous links to the plagiar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "summaries".