Introduction#

Even though space pirates is a cool name, it's also tempting to look into options to deserve the domain name.

Since the crew only has software guys at the moment, we would have to focus on simpler ideas that don't involve too much rocket science.

Quite a few people have had some nice success sending balloons into near space (i.e. in the stratosphere which doesn't quite so cool). Balloons do get to half of the official limit of outer space though: Karman line

Cool and successful projects#

PARIS#

KickSat#

Zach designed micro satellites that can be put inside a cubesat standard module and is trying to get these launched. See Kicksat. The satellites themselves are really just PCBs with some solar cells and wires as antenna at the moment but they could surely be extended if they actually work well.