[Ground-station] Yes, you can buy a cubesat, but...

[Mark Whittington]

Yes but will Digikey subject your $5 microswitch to 20g of abuse before
shipping it to you?  I guess that's where the extra $50 goes, though it
seems like you could get nearly the same result for a lot less by carefully
choosing your shipping option.  UPS seems to be providing free
environmental vibration testing on most of my packages of late.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <
ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> While you *can *purchase every part of a Cubesat, I found the $55 price
> for this Cherry E62-10H microswitch humorous. It's $5.18 quantity 1 at
> Digikey: http://www.pumpkinspace.com/store/p180/CubeSat_Kit_
> Separation_Switch.html
>
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