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it would be awesome for this to become popular enough to see teams of people race each other out of the solar system


how much of a propulsion system could you feasibly pack in a cubesat?


Very very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization.


Enough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system


I frequently wonder if alien didn't send RNA to Earth to start life here. It seems like that could be the payload for anyone shooting satellites out to the universe.




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