For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.
"It is a good thing because the Vietnamese will know better about trading stocks, " says SSC official Le Thao, an expert on Vietnam's securities market.