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		torpor on July 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deploy your own satellite for $8000 So buy two packages, put an Ion drive in one, payload in the other, have them mate in orbit.

relix on July 21, 2010 [–]

An ion drive would be insufficient to keep it in orbit.

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