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Originally Posted by Jaywalker1711
Sounds really cool! Or those awesome cubeSat things
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Cubesats are cool, but they're still really expensive in terms of what most robotics teams could afford. I just took a cubesat design class and we had a budget of $500,000/satellite +$1 Million/satellite launch, and we still barely came under budget. Then again, it was a very complicated system and we utilized a 27U format. But even some of the components are still expensive (like $10K+ for an EPS system from Clyde Space). I would love to start a business that would severely undercut that market, but it's a ton of work to make space rated components.