Space station poised to launch open-source satellites

Want to do your own space experiment? From next week, you will be able to run science projects on the world's first open-source satellites. And it won't break the bank. ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on 3 August aboard a Japanese resupply vehicle (which is also carrying fresh food, supplies and a talking humanoid robot). More

(Source: New Scientist - Aug 9)