Satellite for Personal Cosmos Photos

I was amazed by the news today.

"The Kansai Space Initiative, a non-profit organization set up in 2008 to promote the participation of local Japanese companies and citizens in the development of space, has come up with the idea of launching a tiny satellite equipped with an electric billboard and a camera so private messages can be photographed with Earth as the backdrop.

The KaSpI-1 would be a 50kg microsatellite, similar in size to the Sohla-1 microsatellite that was built by a group of companies in the Kansai area and is scheduled for launch on Wednesday."

Even if they are a non-profit organization, they need to get funding for this idea. I wonder where would they get that!

Read more about the topic in dailyme, KansaiWindow, Daily Yomiuri or in Japanese in the Kaspi website.