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beberlei on Aug 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: KickSat: open source spacecraft project

Same q, and what about the risk of these hitting other spacecrafts?

JshWright on Aug 28, 2016 [–]

They are very light, with a significant surface area, relative to their size. They were supposed to be deployed in a fairly low orbit, and would have re-entered the atmosphere in a few days.

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