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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by filereaper on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:28PM (#26439838)
Wow, this is super interesting.

I didn't realize launching satellites had become so turnkey now where you don't have all the friction of dealing with NASA or any large space agency.

Nanoracks has an interesting list of customers, like Adidas and Double-Tree by Hilton?!

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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by Rebelgecko on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:41PM (#26440004)
Nanoracks does commercial things on the ISS other than cubesat launches. IIRC the Doubletree thing was they sent up an oven and had an astronaut bake cookies using their recipe
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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by GordonS on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:25PM (#26442649)
Part of me is impressed by the economics of it (I had no idea such things were so affordable), and the rest of me is embarrassed by the almost flippant use of space tech...
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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by simonh on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:33PM (#26442701)
I think Astronauts deserve the occasional freshly baked cookie too. Food preparation in space is arguably a serious business.
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Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to... by nickik on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:16PM (#26440365)
Checkout out: https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/

Probably the cheapest way to launch things. However, SpaceX has no interest in dealing with everybody that wants to launch a cubsat so you have to go to an integrator.

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