EP, <<25 Kilograms?>>
... small enough to place a lot of them on to one big rocket, and large enough to equip with some artificial calculating machines, store some cyber instructions/equations, and perhaps carry some incidental luggage, do useful tasks, no doubt, such as checking on the colour of crops and temperature of farm fields, apparently :0)
Think of it, swarms and swarms of them, blinding sights, deafening communications, getting in the way of things, and getting to other things.
Based on serial production cost, should cost something like a China produced microwave oven or DVD, and retail at Walmart for about USD 20/unit.
Could be cheap enough to use in a meteor shower fashion, sowing seeds in fields and planting trees on mountains.
Given the swarm nature, the system should be pretty robust, as any one malfunctioning nanosat will not matter to the swarm. Beautiful, reliable, inexpensive, ingenious, and so timely too.
Russia had announced some system a few weeks back kansascity.com , did not give details, but had said the price was right, and the capabilities were suitable. It might be a variant of the same idea.
The world is becoming safer again. There is nothing like innovation but innovation ;0)
Chugs, Jay |
