Korean Artist's Intentionally Useless Satellite To Launch This December 151
An anonymous reader quotes the introduction to Inhabit's article on the upcoming launch of an art project cum satellite intended to be as different as possible from conventional space hardware: "South Korean artist Song Hojun has created his own DIY satellite from scratch – and he's planning to launch it into space this coming December. Song created the satellite from assorted junk he found in back-alley electronics stores in his home town of Seoul, and over the course of six years he has finally managed to complete his space-bound project. Song's satellite cost just over $400 to make, however the cost of launching it to space is going to be a lot, lot more – over $100,000."
Can the U.S. military target it immediately? (Score:5, Insightful)
Art? (Score:5, Insightful)
Isn't this the equivalent of putting together a non-running car out of scrap and then pushing it into the middle of the interstate and calling it 'art'?
Litterbug (Score:5, Insightful)
Littering near earth orbit as a side effect of doing something useful is problematic. Littering near earth orbit intentionally and for no purpose is pretty antisocial.
Re:Can the U.S. military target it immediately? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Can the U.S. military target it immediately? (Score:5, Insightful)
Target and do what? Blast into thousands of less trackable but no less dangerous fragments?
Re:Art? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:good use of a limited resource (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Can the U.S. military target it immediately? (Score:4, Insightful)
I can't imagine that this $400 "satellite" has a propulsion system of any kind. It will deorbit in months if not weeks
If you need a propulsion system to stay in orbit, you're not really in orbit.