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The cloud in space, right? very good, great. what i still find amazing is that as well as the normal big satellites that we've all seen being launched into space, this is also a satellite these days. it's called a cubesat, it comes with popout solar panels and what you do is you pack these into the empty space around the big satellites in the rocket when they grow up. so suddenly you don't need to buy your own rocket to get something like this into space. you can put whatever you want inside one of these things but they come with some standard kit, like solar powered batteries and an orientati...

Yeah, right. yeah, right, yeah. what i still find amazing is that as well as the normal big satellites that we've all seen being launched into space, this is also a satellite these days. it's called a cubesat, comes with pop out solar panels. and what you do is you pack these into the empty space around the big satellites in the rocket when they go up. so suddenly, you don't need to buy your own rocket to get something like this into space. now you can put whatever you want inside one of these things, but they come with some standard kit, like solar power batteries and an orientation system to...

Five satellites — roughly the size of a Rubik’s cube — created by Canadian university students will each carry out a separate space mission that will last one to two years.

Five satellites — roughly the size of a Rubik’s cube — created by Canadian university students will each carry out a separate space mission that will last one to two years.

NASA's CAPSTONE mission -- a microwave oven-sized CubeSat -- captured its first images of the Moon, showing the lunar surface near the Moon's North Pole.