Hackers just took a stand and announced that they're going to launch their own amateur satellites from a ground station fabricated by them. Their goal, though, isn't just to shoot a bunch of little beeping transmitters into the vast vacuum of space. No. They aspire, in fact, to go to the moon and launch an Internet network that will bypass any country's censors.

While the first plan might be a bit too ambitious - a word used also by a German hobbyist named Armin Bauer - the second plan is definitely plausible and might even go through. The project, known as “Hackerspace Global Grid,” or HGG, has high hopes in coming up with a way to make amateur satellites easier to track.

Because home-crafted satellites are usually launched by superlight gas balloons, they have a tendency to either fall back into the atmosphere or drift into space because of the lack of a precise dispatch area. Rockets are often used to counteract this issue.

Bauer spoke to the BBC on Friday, saying that, “GPS uses satellites to calculate where we are, and this tells us where the satellites are. We would use GPS co-ordinates but also improve on them by using fixed sites in precisely-known locations.” Of course, it's common sense to know that a signal has a source and destination and, through communication, both signals can possibly lead to a location of both the source and the destination. It's like ‘reverse GPS.’”

While they have plans to also make an uncensored Internet network, they're going to have problems with nations that might not take kindly to this effort. Since the satellites will sit where no country has jurisdiction, any country can just come over and disable the satellites at will. The group recently admitted to this problem and also admitted that it cannot come with a solution to this problem at this moment, especially since the project is only in the planning stage.

The HGG team has this to say about their little problem: “Since we don't have actual satellites yet, this falls in the category of problems we're going to solve once they occur. We're doing this because we want to and because it's fun. We're trying to concentrate on reasons why this will work, not why it won't.”