Making Your Own Satellites
Build and launch your own sat for as little as $8,000.
Photography by Garry McLeod (A)
AMATEUR NIGHT: Fig. A: With a Lego NXT system and $500 in parts, a team of International Space University students built this fully functioning prototype satellite, shown by NASA’s Chris Boshuizen (left) and Will Marshall.
It’s often said that there’s nothing you can’t make at home, and even the final frontier is not too remote from the hands of a well-equipped group of DIYers.
Amateur groups have been launching their own satellites into space for 40 years. Today, cheap technologies and novel launch strategies ...
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