Which is why

You launch a swarm of small sats

That replicates same task as a single sat at cheaper costs

far harder to achieve the same resolution

Sure optics ir spectrometers have some way to go

But let me use IMUs as a example

I literally have a IMU chip the size of a pin head on my flight computer

Like that's freaking crazy

Cell phone advances had sped up microchip tech so much, cubesats can do so many things for cheap

Another example is starlink. Sure not a cubesat, but still a relatively small spacecraft. With a swarm it's cheap, you can lose a few, you don't need one 3 billion dollar satellite taking 10 years to build

I'm not saying we're there yet

But just look at the progress we made in space just in the last 10 years

It's insane

It's like Apollo era back from the dead but with private companies

And modern techncology

yea I guess

still think mars will take 40 years but that's just me

Space pessimist vs optimist

eh

pessimism is better

because you can't be disappointed

anything is a bonus

True, but it does make you work harder ;)

yup

Like I was supposed to launch 2 years ago

?

Eh hem I had a break down midway from frustration

oof

I hope to get some launches in 2021

Idk 2 years ago I knew nothing about rocketry

And I thought I could launch something right away

Lol

aim for the stars and if you miss you'll still be around the sun

Lol no

I'm aiming for 300 ft AGL

The biggest I dream atm is suborbital

My freind is doing it. Mach 4 rocket, it's so cool

Wish I could do that lol

someday I hope to work on sats

it's quite a big industry here in the UK

Well you can work on suborital weather balloon cubesats