Personal Space Telescopes

[Liquid360]

With the recent and ever increasing popularity of and price dropping of these small cube satellites, how far away are we from being able to, for 35k'ish, have our own remote space telescopes? I think it might be closer than anybody thinks. A small scope with a gyroscope, a tiny Linux based computer, and a transmitter/receiver is all at would take (yes I understand it's more complicated, but not much).

[Dave Lloyd]

Ooh, thats an interesting concept. You could set a personal channel with your satellite dish.

[Liquid360]

Exactly.

[Dave In Vermont]

Why am I reminded of when McDonald's wanted to launch a glowing, Mylar, solar-sail into orbit so we would all see the Golden Arches flying through the nightime sky? It took an act of Congress here in the US to shoot down this idea...

Yikes!

Dave

[Scott]

regardless of how difficult the mechanics of it may be, I'd think the beurocracy may well may it unattainable.

Nasa "So Mr cirle, why do you want to contribute to the already excessive amount of space junk?"

You   "I want to take pretty pictures"

Nasa "Good-bye Mr Circle"

[Liquid360]

Good thing Russia is open for business.

[skybadger]

But they only last 6 months without attitude control and thrusters. That's a lot of money for a 10cm telescope for 6 months.

The other hand is that you would have 6 months of solid data to play with for three years or more.

[Mr Spock]

With that kind of cash you could buy a one way ticket to Mars

[Dave In Vermont]

With that kind of cash you could buy a one way ticket to Mars

One can only hope.....

Dave