    Send your own satellite into space for $1000   Quentin Hardy
Moore's Law is taking over space.  The observation by Gordon
Moore, a co-founder of Intel, that semiconductors tend to become
smaller and less expensive at a steady rate has been confirmed
on Earth by the advent of things like smartphones. Now, cheap
and ultra-small satellites like those in the space constellation
from Planet Labs are changing the economics of high-altitude
data. That will probably mean more uses of images, laser
readings, magnetic waves and other data by more people, helped
by small and affordable parts. One of the most important
questions, for who has access to and uses this information, is
how far prices will fall.  Really, really far.  Sometime soon, a
small satellite about as big as Planet Labs' shoebox-size
machines, will be used as the launch vehicle for an even smaller
group of satellites. Each bird in this bunch of 104 satellites
measures just 3.5 centimetres, on a side. At a height of 325
kilometres above the Earth, t