Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000

Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 2, 2009 @06:34AM 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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Tonga vs. the atmosphere by retech · 2009-08-02 07:14 · Score: 0, Troll

For a country that bitches a fair amount about global warming and the responsibilities We (humans et al) have to our home... Tonga seems to want to make up lost time and really help break the camel's back.

This is why I don't see the sense in having kids. To hell with responsibility!