Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship (2015)

Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship is a film about a brainiacs who have seen too many sci-fi movies, start building the first Estonian student satellite- Estcube. Its a film about its building, launching and life after the success. Mart Noorma PhD, one of the main characters of the film, is the initiator of and the engine behind the project, or the supervisor, officially speaking. The satellite was primarily built by students, namely around 90 of them, who have been associated with the project over the years. Estcube was launched in the spring of 2013, amidst of loud media buzz; 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.