This is how free enterprise
works. Great advancements come by accident. "We had no idea CubeSats
would go so far," Jordi Puig-Suari, an engineering professor
at Cal Poly who is considered one of the inventors of the CubeSat
concept, told NBC News.
AN FRANCISCO — Someday, swarms of satellites the size of a tissue box
will be snapping pictures, taking environmental readings and
broadcasting messages from orbit — but the entities controlling those
satellites won't be governments.
Instead, they'll be hard-core
hobbyists and elementary-school students, entrepreneurs and hacktivists.
In short, anyone who can afford a few hundred dollars to send something
to the final frontier.
The technology for this outer-space
revolution already exists: It's a type of satellite known as a CubeSat,
which measures just 4 inches (10 centimeters) on a side. The CubeSat
phenomenon started out as an educational experiment, but now it's
turning into a crowdsourcing, crowdfunding movement of Kickstarter
proportions. And not even the sky is the limit.
READ MORE: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/space-all-small-cheap-satellites-may-one-day-do-your-6C10488674
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