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    Hey, here's another entire thing we haven't ragged on yet: The orbit!! You get one orbit per facility.

Oh god. You're right. You're putting it in that spot, that spot right there, that's the spot you're putting it in. Theoretically second-stage is a full-on rocket (so, like I said last time, why bother with the fuckin' tilt-a-whirl) so you can do rockety stuff with that stage, but this is a bunch of people who flew their one and only drone into the ground in 2015.

That said, I don't think it will get to geosync, dude. They're claiming 200 kg "to orbit" but you know that's LEO. That means they're prolly like 70kg to GTO. What the fuck do you do with that? Their entire embarrassing website makes much of cubesats but really - what the fuck do you do with cubesats other than make your community college proud?