Comments on: Satellite's gone up to the skies

Satellite's gone up to the skies

shothotbot — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:01:38 -0800

The kickstarter satellites. Sandy Antunes, the author of the blog post has built his own picosatellite Project Calliope. A project he also chronicled in his blog Satelite Diaries. NPR story.

Sandy Antunes has also written a book, DIY Satellite Platforms. Via Cool Tools.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:06:36 -0800

Sandy "RPG.net" Antunes? Cool!

By: clarknova

clarknova — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:08:31 -0800

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:18:07 -0800

Things like this drive me out of my mind.

By: percor

percor — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:42:23 -0800

Yes, we need more space debris.

By: percor

percor — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:46:41 -0800

That said, given the height that those cameras on balloons get, could you build a 2 stage balloon + rocket to get you to a stable orbit? I suspect not, otherwise it would have been done already.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:22:07 -0800

These ultra-LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites barely qualify as debris. The orbit probably decays on the order of months. After a bunch of searching, I found this on his site: I'm doing music from space, using a 200 gram instrument in a half-kilogram case launched 312 kilometers up. What 200 grams would you put into orbit? A little more googling turned up this paper on an orbital decay rate simulator which happens to have a sample run for a 300km orbit on page 5. Decays after 46 days.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:17:44 -0800

Does fluoride fight orbital decay?