A Personal Satellite Kit?

August 2, 2009 | Amateur Satellite | By: Mark VandeWettering

Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital’s TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions.

The interesting bit? Total cost = $8000, including launch costs. You can use paypal to order one and get a launch slot.

The not so interesting bit? It doesn’t appear that the launch vehicle actually exists.

Via Interorbital Systems – TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit | International Space Fellowship.

Comments

Comment from Doug Weathers
Time 8/3/2009 at 9:59 am

I am pleased as punch to see this bit of news. The Neptune vehicle that IOS is designing is based on one of my favorite launch vehicle concepts – OTRAG.

OTRAG was a (really) cheap modular rocket design dating from the mid-70s, which died due to politics. The guy behind OTRAG, Lutz Kayser, is now with IOS. I hope he can pull it off this time. He’s probably learned not to put his launch site in Libya, for one thing.