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Is there any cheapest method to put tiny private satellite into space?

Hi guys, my engineers team want to put our tiny private satellite into space. this satellite use android OS and 4G for communication, 12MP Camera, have solar panel and 3.3V li-ion rechargeable battery. it weight just about less than half kilogram. We planning to put it into space using drone until there's no air, then use tiny rocket made by fireworks stuff to passing through atmosphere and set it autonomously using some sensors to put it on low earth orbit.

do you think is this reliable ideas? or do you have other cheapest method?

thanks in advance.

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  • Joseph
    Lv 7
    2 years ago
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    First, you need to get a permit to launch anything into space.

    Second, there are FAA restrictions on how high you can fly your drone, which is not very high. You have to obtain a special clearance to operate the drone beyond the line of sight, and the drone that can go high enough to make your scheme work will cost more than your "satellite."

    Third, putting aside the question of how you are planning to control your so called rocket so that it doesn't go corkscrewing in a totally unpredictable direction, the "fireworks stuff" simply won't work. The fireworks only go up a few hundred feet, you will need one hell of a big bottle rocket to go up 100 miles, even if you do launch from a drone.

    Moreover, combustion is a chemical reaction that requires oxygen. The air gets thinner the higher you go, so your rocket will get snuffed out by the lack of oxygen. This is why the real rockets bring their own oxygen supply along.

    Forth, as someone pointed out, the 4G or even 5G cell phone will not work in space. Their transitter simply is not powerful enough to reach the cell towers on the ground. You need to use a satellite phone but they don't have cameras. Speaking of cameras, you won't get much of an image since your platform won't be steady enough to take pictures since you didn't seem to have made any provisions for attitude control.

    You can get a 1U CubeSat that will give you a 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm space to put your instruments inside. These are modular, so you can stack up to 3 units together for a bigger minisat. You can get standard propulsion, electric power, communications and other components for the cubesat so that you can assemble your own satellite. You then contract with a launch provider to launch your satellite, along with several other cubesats as secondary payloads, or to have it delivered to the ISS and shoved out into space from the cubesat dispenser. It will cost you a few hundred thousand dollars for the satellite and launch.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Get someone on the inside to secretly install your satellite inside a rocket payload heading into space. That is how my group got a satellite into space for SPECTRE.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Obviously your engineers don't have the first clue of what is required, and nor do you. You need a MUCH bigger rocket capable of accelerating it to 5 miles per second. This is the orbital velocity required for anything to be in Earth orbit. Otherwise it will fall back down.

  • Manuel
    Lv 4
    2 years ago

    Really?, if you are not an engineer then the engineers in your employ should inform you that what you propose will never work, it is not altitude but velocity that is required to place something into any orbit.

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  • 2 years ago

    How is your drone and fireworks going to give your satellite a speed of 17,500 mi/hr necessary to be in orbit?

    Most people forget that just getting an object 100 miles high into space does not put it into orbit or let it escape from earth's gravity.

  • 2 years ago

    A plain old Rocket is still the best way

    It is like a controlled explosion

    I am sure NASA still has some old Redstones around from the 50's

  • Paula
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Yes

    SpaceX

    SpaceX is relatively cheap.

    Elon Musk worked out how to do it.

    First up, the method you propose won't work. A drone will go no higher than about 30 kilometers. And it would not be able to lift a rocket capable of lifting your satellite another 70 kilometers.

    So you ask Elon Musk (aka SpaceX) to put your satellite on one of his rockets.

    Like these people did.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#International...

    I presume one satellite will only cost about $600,000 - but you might get a special price.

  • 2 years ago

    Sorry bud, but I don't think things will work out the way you intend. Getting your phone even into extremely low orbit would be all but impossible with the resources you have available. The best suggestion so far has been the weather balloon, but even then you won't be anywhere near 'space', and you'd have no means to control it after launch... aka. it'd float away and you'd be out a phone. Also, 4G relies on cell towers which simply lack range to hit the phone once it's a few miles in the air, and at the same time your camera would pick up little more than a blurry mess at that distance.

    It seems like your goal was to access the phone and be able to see from it's camera... right? So why not go with the weather balloon, but tether it something on the ground, and just leave it hovering above your school for a while. Create a streaming site where students can log in to see the live feed. Then, after a week or so, you can reclaim it.

  • John
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    The Atlas missile, which took John Glenn into low orbit for the first time:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(rocket_family...

    No fireworks materials used.

  • 2 years ago

    The way you would do it wouldn't cut it. With the equipment you're describing you would soon face physical limitations. Not even one tenth of the required height would be reached, assuming nothing failed in this dodgy setup.

    You'd need a rocket, and a good one at that. The highest altitude an amateur rocket has ever reached is 72 miles, or 115 km. And that was a hugeass rocket with proper fuel, not something with "fireworks stuff". Technically that is space, but objects in low-Earth orbit are at an altitude of between 160 to 2,000 km (99 to 1200 mi) above the Earth's surface. Any object below this altitude will being to suffer from orbital decay and will rapidly descend into the atmosphere, either burning up or crashing on the surface.

    Also, 4G doesn't work up there.

    What kind of shitty self proclaimed engineers are you?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    2 years ago

    You're putting your 'phone in space? That sounds cool.

    Only other suggestion would be to pay for a ride on a commercial launch - sounds expensive.

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