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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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