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Brown University students, with a low-cost satellite, are blasting off on a budget.
It’s called SBUDNIC, not to be confused with Sputnik, the Soviet satellite that launched in the 1950s. This one is much smaller, about the size of a loaf of bread. On either end, cameras equipped with fisheye lenses will snap grainy photos of Earth and beam them back to the ground every 10 minutes, and temperature data will be recorded.
All for the low, low price of $10,000.
That may seem like a hefty chunk of change, but in the space world, it’s far from astronomical. Read More…