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Shooting for space on a shoestring

Just how cheap can rockets get?

Imagine you have an important experiment you’re just itching to launch into space, but you’ve only a few hundred in the bank. Who you gonna call? Well you could try a group of undergraduates at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Posted by Mike Hopkin on September 22, 2006 05:23 PM |

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Just curious- this is not my field, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me if small rockets like this could pose any nuisance to other spacecraft or aircraft. Or to the ground! I suddenly imagine every high school trying to send one up. Some would succeed, some would fail, but all would go up and eventually come down...

Posted by: Ellen Jorgensen | September 26, 2006 04:58 PM

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