PicoSputnik: 1M picosputniks in Solar System and beyond
My name is Alex I want to start to built spacecrafts from First Principles
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik-1, and I would like to announce the launch of the PicoSputnik project—a construction kit for building your own spacecraft.
Our goal is to help space founders to make their first space iteration 10х faster and 10х cheaper (and for everyone to make the first meaningful educational spacecraft for $500)
The principles I follow are:
- Take 10-100 more risk
- Launch fast (and yes, I am quite embarrassed by the product's current state).
- Dramatically reduce costs through mass production: slashing the price of space components — such as solar panels, magnetorquers, flywheels, and steam or plasma engines — from $10,000 to $10.
- Iterate fast and a lot
- Build in public
- Start as a Toy and after conquer all Universe
I started to work on project in Ensenada, Baja California, September, 13
There are some demo videos of my first prototype (DIY construction kit for kids, hackers and founders)
103 sec: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/82xxoirk6dc
33 sec: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kqcvnd4PhH0
9 sec: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/odFFzPWTILc
here is my video how we launched crowdsoursed satellite 3U from Baikonur, July, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uerbdpnMKvE
Website: https://picosputnik.com/
I do understand that Space is demanding, hard and expensive, but let's make fist 10 steps fun, encouraging and as easy as possible!
Ready for your questions :)
Poyekhali!