| ▲ | 7373737373 a day ago |
| it would be awesome for this to become popular enough to see teams of people race each other out of the solar system |
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| ▲ | warrenm a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| how much of a propulsion system could you feasibly pack in a cubesat? |
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| ▲ | geerlingguy a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Very very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization. | |
| ▲ | notahacker 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Enough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system |
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| ▲ | abirch a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe. |
