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[SOPA](http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/31/sopa-whos-in-and-whos-out/) is making ordinary, decent internet users mad as hell, and they're not gonna take it anymore. Hacker attendees of Berlin's [Chaos Communication Congress](http://www.engadget.com/tag/chaos+communication+congress/) are cooking up a plan to launch a series of homemade satellites as the backbone of an "*uncensorable* (sic) internet in space." Like all good ideas, there's a few hurdles to overcome first: objects in lower-Earth orbit circle the earth every 90 minutes, useless for a [broadband satellite](http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/04/viasat-1-moves-into-fixed-orbit-aims-its-broadband-ray-gun/) that needs to remain geostationary. Instead, a terrestrial network of base stations will have to be installed in order to remain in constant contact as it spins past, at the cost of €100 ($130) per unit. The conference also stated a desire to get an amateur astronaut onto the moon within 23 years, which we'd love to see, assuming there's still a rocket fuel store on [eBay](http://www.engadget.com/tag/ebay/).
Hackers planning homespun anti-censorship satellite internet originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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