How much of the equipment needed was bought from outside sources? Where any of the parts repurposed from other projects? Satellite is easy, if all you want it to do is beep. Its when you want it to multitask it gets harder. As for the rocket, well it might be relatively easy to put together a low orbit more or less unguided rocket. All you really need to do is build a V-2 Rocket in fact. Good bet someone would have the blueprints for that stashed somewhere.
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