Of course, this satellite experience type is different from a standardized private satellite.
Although each TubeSat kit includes satellite components, safety hardware, solar panels, batteries, power management hardware and software, a transceiver, an antenna, a microcomputer, and necessary programming tools. With these kits, one can build a real satellite that is powerful enough to let users receive signals on the ground with handheld amateur radio receivers and can also act as a private amateur radio relay station.
But it can basically only be used for a few weeks, at most a month or two.
Allen Zhang also asked Big Beard about the difference between TubeSat satellites and these micro-satellites, and where he got them from.
