[CLUE-Tech] Project: First Low-Cost Linux-based Satellite in Space?

[Dave Price]

jim,

will be happy to help ... as long as the martin folks launch the right
(or was that left) sattelite this time.  (inside joke for folks who 
worked at martin during the commercial titan days)

aloha,
dave
 
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:54:24PM +0000, clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us wrote:
> Heh, Heh...
> 
> Neat article on /. today re: the successful launch/service of a low-cost space
> satellite built from off-the-shelf Radio Shack parts:
> 
> http://www.usna.com/WhatsNew/2001/Satellite.htm
> 
> Could be an all new niche for Radio Shack.. a new "home-built satellite system
> division"!  Who needs StarBand/Direct PC for satellite Internet service? Put
> your very own low-cost 'bird' in the sky!
> 
> Which got me to think'in.. maybe some CLUE'bie gearheads can team-up with a few
> C.R.A.S.H. members (Colorado Rocketry Association of Space Hobbyists):
> 
> http://jimintriglia.com/Leisure/Rockets/
> 
> . and work with some Martin Space division engineers/scientists, and put into
> orbit Colorado's first low-cost, embedded-Linux-based satellite?
> 
> Bet that would make /.
> 
> ;-^
> 
> JimI.
> 
> 
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