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daymanstep

I see a minimum price of $325k

I don't think a student is going to be able to afford that any time soon

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I think it’s cheaper for student groups. If you google “student club sends satellite” you get a bunch of examples,

https://globalnews.ca/news/9818771/university-of-saskatchewa...

https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/09/16/satellite-developme...

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/launch-its-first-satellite-stud...

etc

SpaceX isn’t providing a discount to student groups. The program, Cubesat Launch Initiative, is funded by NASA and covers the cost of launch and integration into the deployer.

325k$ is for 50kg. Yes it’s the minimum for this program. The students I had were programming the 10cm^3 satellites, I don’t have more details than this cursory explanation but it’s definitely possible.

A cubesat isn't 50kg. Maybe people are subletting a single slot.

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