Synopsis
Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship is a film about a brainiacs who, start building the first Estonian student satellite- Estcube. Its a film about its building, launching and life after the success. The satellite was primarily built by students. Estcube was launched in the spring of 2013; however, the process is far from finished. In fact, there’s also deeper scientific goal to ESTCube-1 satellite – the first space test of an electric solar wind sail. There’s a plan to deploy a 10-metre long hi-tech wired structure, Heytether, out of the satellite in the summer of 2014, during the flight of the student satellite.
If successful, it would be the first step for future space travel. But as we know in space technology nothing is certain and failure is just behind the corner.
If successful, it would be the first step for future space travel. But as we know in space technology nothing is certain and failure is just behind the corner.
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