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July 21, 2012 04:07 am GMT

ArduSat Reaches Funding Goal, Prepares to Launch Satellite July 2013 [VIDEO]




A team of developers based in San Jose wants to let the average person put their ideas in space via an open-source satellite. And the public apparently loved that concept.

The ArduSat project called for funds on Kickstarter and reached more than three times their goal of $35,000.

The team wants to put an Arduino satellite in space to make "space exploration affordable to anyone," says Peter Platzer, the project's physicist, on the Kickstarter page.

"Once launched, the ArduSat (Arduino satellite) will be the first open platform allowing the general public to design and run their own space-based applications, games and experiments, and steer…
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