SpaceX’s Satellite Rideshare Costs More Than a Million Dollars. Is it Worth It?

Fun with physics

Rhett Allain
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJun 22, 2020

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SpaceX SAOCOM 1A mission launch. Photo: SpaceX/Unsplash

Who among us hasn’t wanted to put our own satellite in orbit? Soon it won’t be as hard as it sounds, thanks to the new Rideshare program from SpaceX. Basically, it’s a carpool service for satellites. SpaceX will send up several small payloads and each customer will pay based on the mass of their…

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Rhett Allain
OneZero

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.