After Delivering The Crypto-1
Satellite to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Cryptosat, a U.S. satellite startup
The First
Stage of the Falcon 9 used in the mission returned to land intact.
The Satellite, Which Is About
The size of a coffee mug and was launched alongside 58 other spacecraft, is made of readily available parts.
CubeSats, Microsats
Non-deploying hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles" are among the options.
Bad Actors Can't Get To The Satellite
Because it's in orbit, but it's also more difficult to work with in case something goes wrong than on Earth.
Where...
"You just open a terminal and debug it," as Cryptosat co-founder Yan Michalevsky put it.