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Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000

Posted by kdawson on from the be-the-first-on-your-block dept.

RobGoldsmith sends word of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit, which allows anyone to send a half-pound payload to low-earth orbit for $8,000. Your satellite will fly to orbit from Tonga atop an Interorbital Systems NEPTUNE 30 rocket along with 31 other TubeSats. It will function for several weeks, then its orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere. Interorbital plans to send up a load of 32 TubeSats every month. If you pay in full in advance, you get slotted onto a particular scheduled launch. Here are Interorbital's product page and brochure (PDF).

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  1. Re:FUCK FIREFOX! by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not only a troll, but an especially LAME troll.

    I loaded the page in firefox, just to be told that FF required 400MB of memory in order to render the page. I checked. FF was using 179 MB of memory, with three windows open, and a total of 11 tabs.

    Out of curiosity, I loaded the page in IE8. 176 MB of memory, with only that one page open. Google Chrome? 53 MB. Safari isn't installed on this virtual machine, I'll probably test it later.

    I'm not a mathematical genius, but the troll's claims don't seem to add up.

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    "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
  2. Re:CO2 cartridges to break earth's orbit? by StickANeedleInMyEye · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah but can I bring my girlfriend?