The $50 satellite Eagle2 Launched into Space

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5 pointsgscott2 comments

Great idea. Unfortunately the price to get there is still pretty steep. Can I get my pocket cube to orbit for $8k-10k? Without large efforts to organize a bigger payload? I doubt.

Reading this I wonder if it would be possible to use several weather balloons and then a large home made rocket to go the rest of the way (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/video-homem...).

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