Tom Walkinshaw Founder and CEO of Alba Orbital
Yahoo News have published an interview with entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw, 24, who is opening a ‘DIY space kit shop’.
He hopes it will start a new, “DIY space race” with satellites available for as little as £12,000 ($18,000) which rises to £20,000 ($30,000) when you include the cost of launch into orbit.
“We never used to have PC’s in every University/School, but now a classroom without them is unthinkable,” Walkinshaw told Yahoo News this week.
“Just last month the first high school got their satellite into orbit – Imagine the economic and technological multiplier effect if every University and High School followed in their footsteps. You could do it for less than the cost of a teacher/lecturer for a year.”
Read the Yahoo interview at
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/the-diy-space-race–british-“satellite-shop”-opens—selling-spacecraft-for-£12-000–112223414.html
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