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Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by maaku on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:48PM (#5614697)
You don't buy payload space by the kilogram. You buy it by the rocket, with the smallest launches costing millions of USD each. That per-kilogram figure is just the number that comes out when you divide the launch cost by the maximum theoretical payload capacity.
Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by vilhelm_s on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:56PM (#5614739)
Of course. The proposal is to buy a rocket to send a large number of small satelites somewhere, and split the cost among the satelite owners.