the video was long and depressingly commercialized, so I went to Wikipedia to just get the basic idea about this and im blown away how long cubesats have been around and fairly easily available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

> As of December 2023, more than 2,300 CubeSats have been launched. > Academia accounted for the majority of CubeSat launches until 2013, when more than half of launches were for non-academic purposes, and by 2014 most newly deployed CubeSats were for commercial or amateur projects.[3]

2013?!?! Regular academics have been putting little cubes into space with whatever they want since 1998! amateurs have been doing it for more than eleven years?? There's 2300 of them! this is all blowing my mind that space is even this accessible to people who don't work for NASA, ESA or SpaceX.

commercialized? He just talks to people building open source cubesats