NASA Forming $3M Satellite Communication, Propulsion Competition

coondoggie (973519) writes NASA took the next step in forming a large-scale, $3 million competition to build advanced propulsion and communications technologies for small, inexpensive satellite systems known as cubesats. The Cubesat Lunar Challenge will be broken up into two areas: propulsion and communication while in orbit around the moon. In Request For Information published this week, NASA said the two challenges would provide competitive opportunities for a variety of competition teams to deploy cubesats on a NASA or third-party provided launch.

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Fuck beta

[Anonymous Coward]

Here we go again, after more than a week of peace...
So all was OK throughout the day, and than I made the mistake to check again /.
Did I fucking ask to show me that fucking beta?
Why, why?

Maybe UMich can help?

[jandrese]

While they didn't hit their Kickstarter Goal, this is exactly the sort of thing they were trying to make last year.

steer into junk

[bugs2squash]

surely it's just a matter of arranging to get it hit by debris heading in the right direction and small/slow enough not to destroy the cubesat. Bonus points if cubesat captures the debris and takes it out of orbit at end of life.