First, thank you Tom for giving the first straight answer in 6 pages.
The universities who work on CubeSat give the devices to NASA or the ESA contractors, along with a whole lot of money, to put it into orbit. Instead of putting the devices into orbit they launch it on a stratellite - a high altitude dirigible.
Now come on Tom, you know that isn't true. It doesn't take much research time to determine that not all are put under the care of NASA or ESA. And they
do go into orbit. These are
your satellites that you built by yourself with no outside help, that return telemetry directly back to
you, and that telemetry proves that they are in orbit.
Let's say for the sake of argument that they are all launched by the Conspiracy.
What difference would it make? Even if you built the rockets yourself, you could still say it never went to space because you weren't in the rocket yourself. You see, either way, you're entirely dependent on
the satellite itself to prove whether or not the launch was a success. If you have proof from your satellite that it
is in fact in space, how it got there becomes a moot point.
The
NEE-01 Pegasus will launch next year and have a live video feed from space. Is it a lie, Tom?