Radio amateurs at the University of Michigan plan to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter to fund a Plasma Thruster CubeSat capable of propelling a 3U CubeSat into deep space at 1/1000th the cost of previous missions.

See http://amsat-uk.org/2013/07/09/radio-hams-kickstarter-cubesat-plasma-thruste...

---- 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396 Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----