[time-nuts] TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit

[christopher hoover]

Anyone want to chip in and launch some clocks?  :-)

http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/

Excerpt below.

-ch


  Interorbital Systems -- TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit
  <http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit/>

By
Rob Goldsmith

*Published:* 01 August 2009 10:15 AM CEST  Source 
<http://interorbital.com/TubeSat_1.htm>

*Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the 
introduction of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The 
new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It 
has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but 
still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions. *

And, best of all, the price of the TubeSat kit actually includes the 
price of a launch into Low-Earth-Orbit on an IOS NEPTUNE 30 launch 
vehicle. Since the TubeSats are placed into self-decaying orbits 310 
kilometers (192 miles) above the Earth's surface, they do not contribute 
to any long-term build-up of orbital debris. After a few weeks of 
operation, they will safely re-enter the atmosphere and burn-up. 
TubeSats are designed to be orbit-friendly.  Launches are expected to 
begin in the fourth quarter of 2010.

TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit 
<http://spacefellowship.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Tubesat-solar-cells-antenna-earth-background-assembly-Heading-1.jpg> 


TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit

Total Price of the TubeSat Kit including a Launch to Orbit is $8,000!

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