Quote from: avikz on September 03, 2016, 11:53:24 AM

what is 24 bitcoin satellite? I never heard of it. Can you please provide more details on it?

Facebook lost its satellite and that is a sad thing for the expansion of internet technology. But bitcoin satellite seems a bit absurd. Can you please tell us more about it? Was any company related to bitcoin tried to launch it?

He probably means the microsatellites (cubesats) promoted by Jeff Garzik as launching after the first quarter of this year. I don't think they launched any yet, and the Falcon 9 that exploded only had an Israeli built satellite designed for Facebook on board. I didn't hear anything about its payload including Bitcoin satellites.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-nanosatellites-orbit-earth-2016/

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An ambitious plan to launch bitcoin-enabled microsatellites has taken a step forward with a new business deal.

Dunvegan Space Systems, a startup led by bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik has signed a manufacturing contract with Deep Space Industries (DSI) that will find it constructing 24 nanosatellites for its proposed BitSat program.

The BitSat cluster will act as space-bound bitcoin nodes and is the first of a planned series of nanosatellites. Additional BitSats will be available for purchase at $1m apiece, according to the company.

There's not much information available about the satellites from the company that's behind them yet. There's just a preliminary design review on its website and some basic information. I don't think they have constructed any yet.

http://dunveganspace.com/bitsat.html

http://dunveganspace.com/assets/bitsat-infosheet.pdf

http://dunveganspace.com/assets/bitsat-design-pdr.pdf

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