Interview with KickSat: Open source, crowd-funded spacecraft

1,024 views · Published 8 July 2014 · 7:45 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: Texas Instruments · 2014 · Science & Technology

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We interview Zachary Manchester to learn more about his KickSat project. KickSat is the world's smallest spacecraft that is enabled by TI's CC430 MCU+RF SoC that enables the general public to run various experiments in space. Using open source hardware & software methodologies, Zack turned to the community to make this out-of-this-world project a reality!

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