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by nickparker
2399 days ago
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1. Find a way to return cubesats from orbit 2. Sell your system to anyone who wants to do science where the payload has to come back, but can't get onto the ISS / wants to experiment in open vacuum not a station. 3. Find goods that can only be manufactured in micro-g which are profitable at tiny scale, make them with your returnable cube sats. Made in Space, FOMS, etc are trying to do this but you could iterate faster/cheaper on cubes than mucking with ISS bureaucracy. The window to do this is small and might not exist though. Eventually private stations will likely be the better option. |
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Probably a tiny market there's already the exposed facility on Kibo [0] on the ISS that can take a lot of experiments.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibo_(ISS_module)#Exposed_faci...