Wanna Launch a Satellite? You Can!

Space isn't just for big governments and multi-billion dollar corporations! You can join in now, too! In this week's Space Friday, Trace shows us some of the most exciting homegrown space programs out there!

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We're putting a TARDIS into orbit - Really!
"2013 is the 50th anniversary of DOCTOR WHO, and we're celebrating! We've built a TARDIS, and we're putting it in orbit."

PhoneSat
"PhoneSat is a nanosatellite, categorizing the mass as between one and ten kilograms. Additionally, PhoneSat is a 1U CubeSat, having a volume of around one liter."

TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit
""Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit."

ArduSat - Your Arduino Experiment in Space
"We want to get you into space! Once launched, the ArduSat (Arduino - satellite) will be the first open platform allowing the general public to design and run their own space-based applications, games and experiments, and steer the onboard cameras to take pictures on-demand.."

NASA's Android smartphone satellites return blurry images from space
"NASA has taken many images of the Earth from space, but none quite like this. The blurry images above were captured by "PhoneSats," a new, ultracheap, ultrasmall type of satellite powered by Android smartphones that NASA launched into orbit late last month."

Kicksat: Your personal satellite awaits
"Cornell University graduate student Zac Manchester has been lent this lab to develop KickSat. This 30cm- (12in-) long satellite will contain 200 even smaller satellites, he's called sprites."

Now you can do almost anything with a personal space satellite
"We've entered the Dr. Seuss phase of space satellites. Using the Cubesat model, they're so easy to make and launch that we've actually gotten an adorable infographic showing what they can do - sort of an Oh the Places You'll Go for the personal space age."

Extreme Hobbyists Put Satellites Into Orbit With $8,000 Kits
"Attention wannabe supervillains: Putting your own, personal satellite into orbit is not such a far-fetched idea after all. Interorbital Systems, which makes rockets and spacecraft, created a kit last year that lets almost anyone with a passion for electronics and space build a satellite."

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[rploeger]

$8000 Is actually surprisingly cheap, considering what it is

[nicknack]

I'd set up my own server with my own website with built in email and everything... in space.

[PaulKnutsonSther]

And if "some few thousand dollars" are a bit to expensive for you, you can play Kerbal Space Program.

[SEpstude]

Great to see how fr we came with technology so far. Can't wait to see whats coming inthe next 50 years.

[PattyMMelt]

2:25 I was legitimately worrying about space junk right before this

[angelic]

So now we can finally crowdfund a satellite network and make darknet, a highly encrypted communications network, free from the grubby hands of governments.
I'm in!

[Ali]

Easier way to go into orbit:-
1.Attach to your small rocket a huge and durable Helium filled balloon.
2. Wait until the satellite leaves the Atmosphere.
3. Ignite the Engine as soon as you reach the highest point and the balloon popped.
4. Reach into Orbit.

[IAMTheDeffence]

We should all thank Issac Newton for he is the one that made this possible

[ThatGuyMagnum]

Wait a second! Can I get free satelite wifi everywhere? OMG!

[MultiMediaXL]

I would want to launch a working replica of sputnik 1.

[RichardGetzPhotography]

If there was ever a video that could use a 2019 update, this is it :)

[arpatt]

Fuck YES! Small server, and you got private free internet!

[LithiumDinosaur]

It sounds like such a cool idea to have your own satellite, but it is very expensive, so I wouldn't want it to be designed to burn up in the atmosphere after a few months. I'd want it to last at least 20 years or so. 

[cherylmC]

Flash forward 9 years- I'd like to crowdsource a Very Large Array antenna for the Voyager project. By now, it should be a project that elementary schools can participate in.

[davidwright]

I want to have my ashes sent to Mars so I can be the first there. Historical.

[Major.Tom.]

What if a manned spaceship heading to/from the ISS crashes into one of these little space bricks?   Or if a billion dollar mission to Mars gets struck by an $8, 000 amateur sat?

[Corristo]

I was about to say "Oh great, more junk in orbit." It's really becoming a problem with all those satellites (working and dead), debris and other things whizzing around out there at supersonic speeds.

[jasonsacrifice]

Human kindness commercial I like a lot

[sahrabaers]

Satelites nerds tell the world stupid politition, engineer, .... killing us. come on nerds, you can!

[Len_m]

If you're interested in this, make sure you remember, from a satellite it doesn't look like google maps, there are indeed clouds, so you will not be getting an cloudless image so fast, you would need to wait for specific parts of a country to have no clouds, and then take a picture of it, then wait for another and stitch them.