13 Pico-Satellites to Launch June 28th

leighklotz writes "The CalPoly CubeSat Program announced a launch date for its 13 amateur satellites: June 28, 2006 at 19:39:11Z, from the Kazakstan Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Russian DNEPR-1LV rocket. The satellites are made from a kit, and are 10cm cubes." Read on for more info, including links to many of the individual satellite projects.

leighklotz continues: "There are also pictures of 14 satellites and info about some of them:

ION, University of Illinois
RINCON, University of Arizona
ICE Cube 1, Cornell University
KUTESat [also] University of Kansas
nCube nCube Norweigian University of Science and Technology
HAUSAT-1 Hankuk Aviation University
SEEDS Nihon University
CP1 and CP2 Cal Poly
AeroCube 1 The Aerospace Corporation
Voyager University of Hawaii
ICE Cube 2 Cornell University

These folks have a list of ongoing CubeSat projects. And as always AMSAT is a good organization to join if you have any interest in using or building your own satellites."

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Great... by Digital_Mercenary · 2006-05-31 12:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Great... Thank you very much... More junk in space...
This is what the best and brightest could come up with?
How about getting us back to earths natural satellite,
the moon.

"I'm all for general research, I just wish it had a general direction."
-DML