• Question: have you ever sent a satiliette out into space?

    Asked by tonieastup123 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      In some sense we all have. We work as a community to do these kinds of things – so the taxes I pay (and your parents pay) have contributed to satellites being sent into space.

      But personally I have not been involved in any satellites.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I’ve never done it myself, because you need lots of technology and lots of money to shoot something up into orbit.

      But did you know that there are over 8000 satellites working up there at the moment, and 16,000 dead ones. It’s pretty crowded up there!

    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I had a very tiny involvement with UKube, which is a small satellite being built by students in the UK.

      But I’m not actually that interested in Earth satellites.

      The instrument I am building will hopefully go on a Mars satellite eventually.

Comments