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Re: FRC students outside of FRC

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Originally Posted by Jaywalker1711 View Post
Sounds really cool! Or those awesome cubeSat things
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.
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