Crowd Funded Mayak Satellite Launched by Russia Will Outshine

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This cube sat will potentially outshine every star in the sky, even Venus and the International Space Station. It is a Cube-Sat/Mini-Satellite

http://theconversation.com/russias-mayak-satellite-crowd-funded-cosmic-pest-or-welcome-nightly-visitor-81322

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/russias-new-star-satellite-is-making-skygazers-see-red/news-story/bf40473b3c72bd0a314d9f19c0b929a5

Here is their youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91z2rT_4Xw

Their app that easily locates the satellite is restricted to people who crowdfunded and its in russian. I used heavens above to locate it (it didnt show up in the app for a few days)

www.cosmomayak.com

They hope to inspire youth and US to put our own objects in space. It only cost them $10,000 to get the payload ready and on the rocket (along with other payloads on the rocket) and NASA has launched a few cubesats that only use a old smartphone as the computer board, total cost $3,500

We could totally do this guys, a 4chan or pol Satellite. Personally I think it would be cool to load up a bunch of meme images onto the sat, have a camera on the sat pointing at the Earth and blackness of space, you could see the random memes on a monitor next to the window to space. Could even see ufos :)

I made a vid how to find the Satellite as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q__cIht-LTE