> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.protein.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# ArduSat
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/ardusat/
- Published: 2012-06-25T15:12:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:22.000Z
- Description: Explore space with the ArduSat miniature satellite.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/3964/0dc099b7-b9ae-4962-8863-0a224d44dbe7.png)

Space exploration is a popular fantasy. And while space travel is becoming more of a reality for the layperson, private flights still cost a few hundred thousand pounds.

The [ArduSat](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space?ref=protein.xyz) won't rocket you out of the atmosphere, but it will give you control over an orbiting satellite.

About the size of a Rubik's Cube, the ArduSat is a miniature cubic satellite (10cm x 10cm) housing a suite of 25+ sensors, including three cameras, a Geiger counter, spectrometer, and magnetometer. Once launched, the ArduSat will be an open platform allowing the general public to design and run their own space-based applications, games and experiments, steer the on-board cameras to take pictures on-demand, and broadcast personalized messages back to Earth.

The ArduSat Kickstarter project has already reached its initial goal of $35,000, and they're about $32,000 shy of a new $75,000 goal. That would mean upgrading the equipment to a "double-sized ArduSat with better camera and sensors, or two single-sized ArduSats for Satellite-to-Satellite communication experiments."

You can donate [here](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space?ref=protein.xyz), but the $10,000 "Platinum ArduSat Space Partner" title is sold out, so why bother?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/3964/dca54e27-2464-43f3-bbe0-98e2dd68b72a.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/3964/c6536fb3-9964-4fcc-8fb2-0b6d19eee909.png)