Glasgow based CubeSat start-up in The Herald newspaper

Alba Orbital -The Herald February 22 2013Tom Walkinshaw’s Glasgow based start-up Alba Orbital was featured in the Friday, February 22 edition of The Herald. It was even mentioned on the newspapers front page.

Tiny satellites known as CubeSats have traditionally been used for amateur radio communications and other educational purposes. Alba Orbital proposes to use CubeSats to send people’s ashes into space.

Read the story at
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/rest-in-space-funeral-plan-is-out-of-this-world.20280879

Alba Orbital http://www.albaorbital.com/

Twitter http://twitter.com/albaorbital

Alba Orbital make Shell top 10 http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=12172

Alternative use for CubeSats http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=11637