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- Buckeye17, on 11/15/2008, -0/+15I wonder if space will ever run out of room...
- patrick159, on 11/15/2008, -2/+0its inposible
- expatcatalyst, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2I want the contract to go around and zap all the space junk. All of the junk in space orbiting around earth has to be tracked and cataloged.
- MarkusX, on 11/15/2008, -0/+4With that many satellites, maybe Google Maps can soon have "Live satellite pictures".
But I wonder about the space shuttle, soon they probably have to think about slalom mode, which can be used to dodge all the mini satellites in the sky.- MWeather, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1The shuttle generally doesn't orbit at the same altitude as satellites unless it's deploying or repairing them.
- paradisetonight, on 11/15/2008, -2/+8only 100,000??!?!? i'lll take over 9000 in that case!
- LanceUppercut, on 11/15/2008, -0/+11and $5 million to launch.
- walrus072069, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1$40,000 is the current cost to orbit. They hitch a ride on larger missions.
- Paulorific, on 11/15/2008, -2/+10As long as they're not Africanized.
- kyoobeh, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3lol africanized
- connieLingus, on 11/15/2008, -3/+1yeah for $100,000 you get a "satellite", but they forget to say that you *really* need the "communication upgrade" that or course is $900k more...
its kinda nice to be able to talk to those things.... - kestrel7e7, on 11/15/2008, -0/+8more junk for the iss to dodge
- BXRWXR, on 11/15/2008, -0/+4Because of the Digg effect, sites should be investing swarms of small servers.
- rescu911, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2Sure they're for the "weather." It's these liberal wing nuts trying to turn us into commies. We're all gonna be spied on after they take our guns .... And before Bush leaves office he's gonna use them to start another war in Iraq. Without Ron Paul to guide us, the government will turn them into cyborgs to control our every move.
Uh ... sorry. I guess I've just read one too many extremist political comments on Digg. - spyd3rweb, on 11/15/2008, -3/+1I fail to see how that little thing costs $100,000.
- Teku, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Sounds like cloud computing.... I will coin a new phrase, nebula computing.
- dmark77, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2$100,000 to build.
$1,000,000 to launch. - neutronphaser, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Hopefully one will deliver broadband better than British Telecom
- Myztry, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Didn't they use a similar thing in Twister (Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt) to measure weather (wind velocities).
Oh, and since satellite travel well in excess of 10,000 km/hr it would get interesting having a couple of thousands of them buzzing around... - madwaxer, on 11/15/2008, -1/+1what a waste why not just plant theose things in the tallesst buildings in the ceilings all over cities to act as singnal repeaters would cost less to deploy them.
- squareears, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0wouldn't be global!
- squareears, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0used for observations of the weather... yeah right.
- AskAboutMe, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Typo*
- phoenix1974, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0Will these be able to carry the solid state laser i just read about.
- SmidleyDigg, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Coincidence that I'm watching WALL-E right now?
- ulmanor, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Um, has anyone read _Prey_ by Michael Crichton?
- valkyries, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1search for SuitSat II
- onionoino, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1great more junk to orbit earth, only now its cheaper and far easier to produce.
hurray - pe5t1lence, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1University of Kentucky has a cube-sat NASA is going to launch next year.
http://www.kentuckyspace.com/home.aspx - bryanmiller, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0there are CubeSat programs at many schools around the US and they usually build one satellite a year to launch.
- gkiltz, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0At least now, whole multibillion dollar missions won't be lost over one stuck solar panel or antenna!
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