Comment by 7373737373
Comment by 7373737373 13 hours ago
it would be awesome for this to become popular enough to see teams of people race each other out of the solar system
Comment by 7373737373 13 hours ago
it would be awesome for this to become popular enough to see teams of people race each other out of the solar system
Enough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system
Very very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization.
I frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe.