[Noisebridge-discuss] International Space Station Flyby / Spacehack

[Michael Shiloh]

wow. that is actually insanely cool.

if we got 100 people to participate, that would be $80 a head.

what would we have our satellite do?

m

Ariel Waldman wrote:
> You may not be able to build your own ISS but you can build your own 
> satellite and launch it on a rocket for $8k:
> 
> http://spacehack.org/project/tubesat-ps-kit
> 
> I created Spacehack.org (a directory of ways to participate in space 
> exploration) after I left NASA last year and just thought I'd briefly 
> say hello since there seems to be some fellow space geeks on the list. 
> There's definitely some projects on there that might be of interest to 
> Noisebridge.
> 
> Also, a super easy way to know when the ISS will be overheard is to use 
> http://twisst.nl/ - sends you a personal @-reply to your Twitter account 
> several hours ahead of time with all the details.
> 
> 
> Ariel Waldman | digital anthropologist
> 
> [ http://arielwaldman.com | http://spacehack.org ]
> 
> 
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>     Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:44:30 -0800
>     From: "Lee Sonko" <lee at lee.org <mailto:lee at lee.org>>
>     Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Dr. Zarkov! There's no ISS! It's 8:24
>            in the  morning, and there's no ISS!
>     To: <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>     <mailto:noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>>
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> 
>     Sure, we won't be able to see the International Space Station with these
>     clouds. We'll make and launch our own! It'll be awesome. I'll be
>     there with
>     a couple friends.
> 
>     Call if you'd like to hook up, 415-306-2151
> 
>     Lee
> 
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