Why Darpa Wants Everyone to Launch Tiny Satellites
Why Darpa Wants Everyone to Launch Tiny Satellites
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 30, 20187m 12s
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Show Notes
You could be excused, when you first hear Dane Rudy describe his company, for thinking that he wants to use raccoons to send satellites into space. Trash pandas, though, are not the future that Rudy is talking about. He's talking about rockoons—rockets launched from high-altitude balloons. Rockoons trace their trajectory back to the military, like the 1950s Air Force program called Farside.
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