Experimental Radio News 12
Satellite selfies, drilling with millimeter waves, mobile phone rescues, a hypersonic glider, and more – in Experimental Radio News 12.
With millions of YouTube followers, former NASA and Apple engineer Mark Rober is famed for foiling package thieves with glitter bombs and unleashing cockroach hordes on phone scammers. He is the founder of CrunchLabs educational science kits; and now SatGus, which displays selfie pics on a phone in space.
We did not learn exactly who owns and has command authority over the SatGus satellite. “You will not find any CrunchLabs related records with the FCC,” Rober's spokesperson told us. “SatGus was developed by the legal entity that owns the Mark Rober YouTube channel, not CrunchLabs. It is also built and operated by Tyvak International out of Italy, and many of the licenses obtained are not domestic.” Tyvak is part of Terran Orbital, acquired by Lockheed Martin last year.