How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA and NOAA
Jan 23, 2018•7 min
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Episode description
Information from space has historically been the province of the rich and powerful. Big Earth-observing satellites can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and launch, and the price of their data scales accordingly. Scrappy scientific upstarts have, for a while, been building smallsats to get orbital data on the cheap.
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