[ohgodthecat3]

They said they chose arduino because it was easy for people to learn and get into which is true. I'm sure they will being doing work to make the arduino (environment) space ready, hopefully they are able to do enough testing on the ground for it to work reasonably in space.

$30,000 though seems a bit cheap for this project and I'm guessing that they already have facilities they can use or have sponsors that are helping them out, otherwise it might just go up into space and just not work.

[pvarangot]

Its cheap indeed. At u$d 35.000 they must already have access to some serious facilities in order to really develop this (i.e. at least a Helmholtz coil and a relatively clean room).