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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sabrinathecat" data-source="post: 6150962" data-attributes="member: 89838">Purpose: INSPIRATION!Yes, if a father/daughter team (not some corporation out to pull a publicity stunt) can build a functional satellite, which will be transmitting images of space and the earth, and get it into orbit, it means that others can too--those with the loftier goals.Yes, I am sure some company is backing this for publicity reasons, and maybe even being the face of the project. But, the main people behind it are a Father and Daughter team. Yes, they are making mistakes. And LEARNING from them.Tardis image? It's a british Police box. They stood on street corners and alleyways for 50 years! The police box design is well and truly into public domain (DisneyCorp hadn't forced the US gov't into extending it out at that point, and besides, this is a British icon). And if the BBC wanted to shut the project down, they would have. Chances are that if they slap a BBC logo on it somewhere, the BBC won't say a thing.Clutter: most of that clutter is from objects that have broken off or escaped from Astronauts'/cosmonauts' hands or tools. A functional satellite, no matter how amateur, is not clutter. The position will be known and tracked. Furthermore, this satellite will be in low orbit, and will only be up for about 3-5 years before re-entry and burn up.Also, there is a solution in the works for clutter. Essentially, it is a vacuum cleaner satellite. The exact purpose of this German-made project is to collect and remove the escaped nuts, bolts, wrenches, and other debris, and to push non-repairable satellites out of orbit so that they burn up sooner.</blockquote>

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