Other than a few amateur radio satellites that have piggy-backed into space on commercial or government launches, what amateur satellites have been put into "orbit"?
Should the hackers manage to actually get one or more satellites into space, I suspect that they will make great targets for anti-satellite weapons. Oops, sorry that we just destroyed Comstar-9, we were aiming for Hacker-3 :-)
There aren't any amateur efforts that I am aware of that are capable of an orbital launch as far as rocket technology goes. I'm involved in a multi-year effort to get a sugar propellant based rocket into space. Orbit is not currently possible for amateur rocketry efforts so unless they can weasel their way onto a commercial launch it ain't happening.
See: http://www.sugarshot.org/ 73, Jeff Moore -- KE7ACY Tripoli Rocketry Assoc. http://www.tripoli.org/
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Chaos Communication Congress Dec. 27-30 http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4699.en.html
73 Trevor M5AKA
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