NPR Planet Money Satellite by Daylen Sawchuk https://padlet.com/daylenca/3n0ay0ros02 Science 10 - Space Exploration Project en-us 2018-05-02 16:11:09 UTC 2018-05-02 18:49:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png Creation daylenca https://padlet.com/daylenca/3n0ay0ros02/wish/257331321 The majority of satellites are owned by governments and large corporations,
making the likelihood of a company funded by people buying tote bags for their
kale highly unlikely.

The project started out as a joke in NPR's office, but soon the reporters became so
interested that they wanted to see thew feasibility. Low and behold, on October
31, 2017, their satellite was successfully launched into space.

As reported by Elizabeth Kulas, the world of satellites was finally beginning to go
mainstream by 2017, kind of like when the smartphone launched. Most satellites
that provide services like GPS are the size of school buses and cost hundreds of
millions of dollars. However, as the amount of satellites being sent to space grew,
the cost and size of them began on a rapid decline.

Steve Jobs of the Satellite Revolution,
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