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Re:Deploy your own satellite for $8000 by russss on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @04:49AM (#1531530)
Yes. There's not nearly enough capacity on one of those tubesats for a workable propulsion system and any kind of payload.

A lot of the cost advantages of the tubesats (which, incidentally, have never been launched) come from their standard design.

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Re:Deploy your own satellite for $8000 by torpor on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @10:11AM (#1532097)
So buy two packages, put an Ion drive in one, payload in the other, have them mate in orbit.
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Re:Deploy your own satellite for $8000 by relix on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @05:35PM (#1536616)
An ion drive would be insufficient to keep it in orbit.
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