From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 09:29:08 MDT
Students at the Naval Academy have built a satellite for $50K.
Boeing gave them a grant for $250K because they didn't think
it could be done for so little. Now they get to build 4 more...
URL:
http://www.sunspot.net/technology/bal-te.ar.satellite24aug24.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
Slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/24/1658238&mode=thread
Me thinks my suggestions in my post on March 11, 2001, to the
"NASA Ends Project..." thread on building microsatellites to
move small asteroids into near earth orbits just got a little
more real.
Robert
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