While every other gadget in our lives has gotten smaller, lighter, and cheaper, satellite technology spent decades after the launch of Sputnik and Explorer I getting bigger, heavier, and more expensive. But recently, the rise of cubesats and microsatellites has meant that at last, commercial satellite start-ups, universities, schools, and even crowdfunding campaigns can put their own satellites into space. However, small satellites need small satellite launch vehicles—after all, small satellites cannot truly change the world without cost-effective, frequent rides to space!