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Space chips

Zac Manchester is making smallsats smaller still

LIKE Elon Musk, Zac Manchester wants to get people into space. Unlike Mr Musk, he does not have a billion-dollar spaceship business to do it with. But he has imagination, the skills of a smart young engineer, the cubesat standard and crowdsourced funding. That is enough.

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