KickSat -- Your personal spacecraft in space!
A project in Ithaca, NY by Zachary Manchester000days
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Would you like to have your own spacecraft? Kickstart the personal space age by helping launch tiny spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
Backers: 315
Average Pledge Per Backer: $237
Funded: $74,586 of $30,000
Dates: Oct 4th -> Dec 3rd (61 days)
Project By: Zachary Manchester
Backers: 315
Average Pledge Per Backer: $237
Funded: $74,586 of $30,000
Dates: Oct 4th -> Dec 3rd (61 days)
Project By: Zachary Manchester
$74,586
current pledge level
Last Updated: May 28 @ 12:07 -0400 GMT
248%
of goal
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Latest News
Swarm of 105 tiny Sprite ChipSats successfully deployed
June 5th - via: newatlas.com
If you thought SpaceX launching 60 Starlink satellites at once was impressive, Cornell University managed 105 small satellites. The ChipSats, called Sprites, forming a swarm of cracker-sized nanosatellites were deployed from the Kicksat-2 CubeSat on March 18, 2019 at an altitude of 300 km (186 mi). (Read More)
Crowd-Funded Satellite May Fall from Space Before Unleashing Tiny 'Sprite' Armada
May 9th - via: space.com
The crowd-funded KickSat satellite launched to space in April, but it might burn up in Earth's atmosphere before completing its mission. (Read More)
Tiny KickSat 'Sprite' Satellites May Not Deploy
May 9th - via: eham.net
Because of a technical glitch, the KickSat CubeSat may not be able to deploy its cargo of tiny "Sprite" satellites after all, Project Manager Zac Manchester, KD2BHC, announced on May 3. (Read More)
Engraving Photos
January 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, First off, sorry for the long delay in posting these photos. I'm finally back in the lab at Cornell after a long road trip from California. I'd like to extend another huge thank you to everyone at NASA Ames Research Center who helped me... (Read More)
KickSat Delivered!
December 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, This is a long overdue and very exciting post. Last Wednesday we finished integrating KickSat into it's P-POD (the pod it will ride inside during launch) at CalPoly in San Luis Obispo, California. Here's a video of the big moment: You'll... (Read More)
Asteroids and Code
October 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, Sorry for another long gap between posts. We're pretty busy right now with only a few weeks left before KickSat is delivered for integration. I'll try to post more in the next few weeks to document the process. This week I'd like to... (Read More)
Back From Maker Faire New York
September 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, I just got back to California from Maker Faire in New York. We had a really great time showing off KickSat to the thousands of people who came through the NASA booth and we managed to take home an Educator's Choice ribbon. My favorite... (Read More)
Maker Faire New York
September 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, I just got to the New York Hall of Science in Queens to help set up for Maker Faire. If you'll be at the faire this weekend, come visit us at the NASA booth! There will be lots of other cool space stuff in addition to KickSat and the... (Read More)
Lots of Testing
September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, Sorry for the long lapse since my last post - we've been super busy. In the last few weeks we've finished building KickSat, gotten over 100 Sprites ready to fly and loaded into the deployer, and performed a whole bunch of testing... (Read More)
SmallSat 2013
August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, Yesterday I gave a presentation on KickSat at the SmallSat conference. You can see my slides online here, although unfortunately SpeakerDeck doesn't support videos. If you want to see the videos, you can download the original PowerPoint... (Read More)
Laser Engraving
August 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, Sorry I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday - we've been pretty busy. Here's something fun we managed to do this week: We laser engraved all of the inscriptions from our backers on the outside of KickSat's aluminum structure. I'll... (Read More)
Flight Sprites
August 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, This week we reached the very exciting milestone of receiving the final flight unit Sprites from the board house. You might notice a few differences between these Sprites and previous designs. Most obviously, they have solar cells on the... (Read More)
Building Stuff
July 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everyone, It's officially crunch time around here. We're in the process of building the KickSat mothership in time for our final delivery in September - less than 2 months away! Here's where we are right now: We have the structure built along with... (Read More)
Launch Party: a crowdfunding revolution ignites the next space race
January 31st - via: theverge.com
Inside an old storage warehouse in an abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen, Kristian von Bengston and Peter Madsen have been building a one-man rocket ship they intend to send on a 15-minute, parabolic trip to the edge of space and back.
Von Bengston and Madsen’s non-profit, private space agency is called Copenhagen Suborbitals, and is probably the most extreme do-it-yourself project in the world. Von Bengston is an architect and former NASA contractor. Madsen is an engineer who founded a DIY collective that built three submarines as a hobby. (Read More)
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