Your Own Satellite: 7 Things to Know Before You Go
Launching your own satellite is easier than you think. Here are 7 things you need to know before launching that personal spacecraft into orbit.
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Flight of the Space-Grazing Ping Pong Balls
Students from all over the world send us their PongSats and we float them to 100,000 feet.
5 Cool Participatory Space Projects
From discovering supermassive black holes to saving Earth from deadly asteroids, here are five ways you can make scientific discoveries and actively contribute to space exploration.
NASA Is Taking Off with Makers
We chat with Sam Ortega manager of the Centennial Challenges Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center about the program and how makers have participated in the past, and how they might participate in current and future challenges.
DIY Satellite Will Blink Morse Code for All the World to See
Professor Takushi Tanaka and his team at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology built a 10 centimeter cube-shaped micro-satellite called the FITSAT-1. It was deployed from the International Space Station on October 5, 2012 and is currently whizzing over our heads at an elevation of 242 miles.
Homemade Satellites are Just Around the Corner
As a child, I always looked up at the stars and wondered how I could make it into space. Hopefully, I will live to see that day, but for now, a homemade satellite will have to do. The Nanosatisfi team has made it their mission “to provide affordable space exploration for everyone!,” and with […]
Intern’s Corner: Yagi Antenna
MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Tyler Moskowite, engineering intern One of my all-time favorite projects to build has to be the Yagi Antenna from Make: Volume 24. The Yagi Antenna tunes into satellites orbiting the Earth […]
