Miniature third power satellites tolerate for contained enquiry projects on a close budget . More and more science is being done with these tiny cubes , with 24 projection currently in - orbit and another 76 pre - approve on a waiting list expect launching .
A pair of CubeSats discharge from the International Space Station in February 2014 . Credit : NASA
The satellites can be work up for under $ 100,000 if they ’re put together by student - labour , and while demand double launching costs between 2003 and 2013 , hitching a ride to scope is still a relatively reasonable at $ 80,000 per cube . While the smallest satellite can only do a call - response ping , the standard - sized cubes are capable of projects as complex asidentifying terrestrial gamma ray event .
learn more about the quickly - shrinking technology on Nature News .
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