This tiny satellite could be your own personal spacecraft from just $1,000

How much do you think a typical spacecraft costs? Millions, or even billions, of dollars? If you're talking about the kinds of vehicles in NASA's fleet, you're right, but what if you reduced the scale to, say, the dimensions of a Matchbox car? That would make things a lot more affordable, right? That's the thinking behind an ambitious new satellite concept developed by scientists at Arizona State University (ASU). Their tiny SunCube platform is what's called a femtosat – aka femtosatellite, meaning an extremely small satellite that weighs less than 100 grams in total (and that's including any mini payload or fuel). More

(Source: ScienceAlert - Apr 10)