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A comment on KickSat: open source spacecraft project.

Re:KickSat: open source spacecraft project by deanclatworthy on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:08AM (#12376562)
What is the point of having thousands of these things floating around? (Serious)
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Re:KickSat: open source spacecraft project by beberlei on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:14AM (#12376586)
Same q, and what about the risk of these hitting other spacecrafts?
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Re:KickSat: open source spacecraft project by JshWright on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:21AM (#12376622)
They are very light, with a significant surface area, relative to their size. They were supposed to be deployed in a fairly low orbit, and would have re-entered the atmosphere in a few days.
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