Comments on: Personal Satellite http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2009/08/21/personal-satellite/ Where ever you go, there you are. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:21:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hornlo http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2009/08/21/personal-satellite/comment-page-1/#comment-2618 hornlo Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:25:56 +0000 http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/?p=617#comment-2618 Thanks for the comment. Anyone who is seriously interested in suborbital or orbital access should of course investigate the market and vet the claims of any services offered. For the sake of disclosure .... I see your name links to a company (whose name or products I won't mention directly or link to myself due to the many <acronym title="Intellectual Property">IP</acronym> warnings) that offers a product named similarly to the "TubeSat" (replace the "T" with a "C"). The Q & A page says the company is not a launch provider itself, but offers services between the experimenter and the launch provider. Thanks for the comment. Anyone who is seriously interested in suborbital or orbital access should of course investigate the market and vet the claims of any services offered.

For the sake of disclosure …. I see your name links to a company (whose name or products I won’t mention directly or link to myself due to the many IP warnings) that offers a product named similarly to the “TubeSat” (replace the “T” with a “C”).

The Q & A page says the company is not a launch provider itself, but offers services between the experimenter and the launch provider.

]]> By: David M Jankowski http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2009/08/21/personal-satellite/comment-page-1/#comment-2616 David M Jankowski Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:15:15 +0000 http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/?p=617#comment-2616 I have been following this story for weeks now, and still I wonder why no one has brought this simple little matter up… so here it is, take it for what it’s worth; 35 TubeSats @ $8,000 each ( $280,000.00 total). This price includes fueling & launching the rocket, and making a profit for the company. Does anyone see a potential problem with this pricing structure, or is it just me. Wings and prayers do not launch rockets... money and intelligence does. For this scheme to even have a chance at reaching space the price structure per each individual TubeSat (If that price is also to include launch costs as advertised) will have to start at a minimum $150,000.00/$300,000.00 each. I wouldn’t get my hopes up for getting your own personal satellite into space for $8,000.00 It’s a nice thought but not a realistic one unless you have a very large rubber band. I have been following this story for weeks now, and still I wonder why no one has brought this simple little matter up… so here it is, take it for what it’s worth; 35 TubeSats @ $8,000 each ( $280,000.00 total). This price includes fueling & launching the rocket, and making a profit for the company. Does anyone see a potential problem with this pricing structure, or is it just me.
Wings and prayers do not launch rockets… money and intelligence does. For this scheme to even have a chance at reaching space the price structure per each individual TubeSat (If that price is also to include launch costs as advertised) will have to start at a minimum $150,000.00/$300,000.00 each. I wouldn’t get my hopes up for getting your own personal satellite into space for $8,000.00 It’s a nice thought but not a realistic one unless you have a very large rubber band.

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