Massimo Banzi on Ted Talks

He gives a 10 minute lecture on the Arduino and lists several projects.
http://www.ted.com/talks/massimo_banzi_how_arduino_is_open_sourcing_imagination.html

At the end he mentions this kickstarter project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space which aims to put an open source arduino satellite into space that amateur astronomers will have access to.