Planetary Resources -- the billionaire-backed company that plans to mine minerals from asteroids -- will include a tiny satellite in each of its space telescopes.
The satellites are called CubeSats, and they're a standardised payload (a 10 cm sided cube, with a maximum weight of one kilogram) for putting university projects into space. Launching them, however, can be a costly and complicated process.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/07/planetary-resources-cubesats
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