Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Trends and Innovation: Postage-Stamp-Sized Satellites


The perfect holiday present for the space nut that has everything. For only $300 you can get naming and tracking rights or for a $1,000 contribution let’s you write its custom flight code. These postage-stamp-sized satellites can be bulk launched cheaply into space, drifting on solar winds sending signals back to Earth. Three of the Cornell graduate student designed Sprite Minisatellites are now attached to the outside of the Int’l Space Station for testing.