Zac Manchester KD2BHC is an engineer at Cornell University in the Space Systems Design Studio who has created the Sprite – a “cracker-sized” satellite that changes the dynamics of the economics and thus the accessibility of spacecraft by several orders of magnitude.
Watch a recording of a live interview and Q&A session Jan 10, 2012.
KickSat – a personal spacecraft of your own in space http://www.uk.amsat.org/2164
London Hackspace hope to have a sprite, HackSat1, deployed by KickSat, see http://www.uk.amsat.org/2482
London Hackspace Project: Hoxton Space Centre