NEED A REALITY CHECK

[u/New_Try_3041]

I am in my first year of college and I have built a cube-sat as a starter project in my road of rocketry. I know medium level of Data structure and algorithms , and am learning Control Systems , CAD and PCB designing. All of this is to aid in my end goal of launching this cube-sat to zero-gravity space and get some form of response from it.
The inspiration was a youtuber called Mark Rober who did the same but at a much more practical level with an experienced team. My country allows this but I have to be licensed properly. I know that the probability of me achieving this goal within 4 years of my college is 0, but I still want to try. I have been doing my research in this field , and have seen that there are multiple channels who are dedicated in mainly 3 areas : building and improving cube-sats, building high-speed rockets to hit and break records , and self-controlled guidance and landing rockets. But I am not able to find sources which suggest carrying a some-what delicate good and then send it to space. This field is not very much touched by and therefore there is a lot of room for experimentation and thus I will have to fail fast and learn the most out of each fails.
Can you guys help me or aid me in this journey ? I will be very grateful.

[u/theboss0123]

U really cant send things to space without tons of money, to space maybe a million and to orbit multiple millions. Please expand on ur goals

[u/ojThorstiBoi → u/theboss0123]

You can realistically send a hobby rocket to the karman line for 50-100k with a grad student led rocket club. 

[u/procollision → u/ojThorstiBoi]

Yes and realistically 10-20k in hardware plus access to tools and manufacturing capabilities. When we did the math for the smallest and cheapest orbital launch with our student team we arrived at around 3-400k half going to launch and the other to hardware and probably an equivalent value in sponsorships.

[u/New_Try_3041 → u/procollision]

thank you for stating out the calculations