Yesterday I attended a fascinating talk by Hojun Song on his Open Source Satellite Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to enable everyone to launch a satellite by finding low-cost alternatives to the hardware, launch, etc. and publishing the information. A great opportunity for making your physics course interesting.

Hojung Song in a Korean artist with an engineering background. He really knows his stuff and that makes his artistic work so refreshing. Actually, the satellite will be launched this or beginning of next year.

A nice review from Carsten Ullrich (a Shanghai based researcher) of the talk Hojun Song gave in Shanghai at W+K offices on April 1st (more info here).

I also suggest, as he does, to check out the minutiae of the "G.O.D." poster, as it contains, mostly as visual keywords, an almost complete list of the components needed to build a working Cubesat (the small - 10x10x10 cm - open source satellite design used by most amateur builders) and a plethora of space & tech pop references.

G.O.D. is the acronym of Global Orbiting Device.

Thanks W+K for the generous use of their offices, everybody for attending and Carsten for the nice review.