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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/AQYW3VKIU2NKREDU5OD6HC3ISGY5J6WK/",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "salo (a) saloits.com",
        "mailman_id": "251bbafb182a489fa8df89f48ea472e0",
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    "sender_name": "Timothy J. Salo",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  \"NSF Taps Tiny CubeSats for Big Space Science \"",
    "date": "2008-11-08T20:40:15Z",
    "parent": null,
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    "content": "Space.com had an interesting article on the use of\nCubeSats to monitor space weather.\n\nhttp://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080827-nsf-cubsats-science.html\n\nWhile reading this article, it may be useful to think about\nhow these activities might be leveraged into additional\nsupport for amateur communications payloads.  For example:\n\no Support space weather research.  Could an amateur\n   communications satellite be subsidized if it carried\n   space weather instruments?  Could a microsat focused\n   on space weather research carry an amateur communications\n   payload (particularly, if the amateur communications\n   package carried space weather telemetry)?  Could a\n   network of amateur ground stations collect space weather\n   telemetry?\n\no Support space research (beyond space weather).  There\n   is actually a long history of using research payloads\n   to support amateur satellites.  Yet, this method of\n   funding amateur satellite activities seems to often\n   fall off the short list of ways to subsidize amateur\n   communications satellites.\n\no Develop the next generation of space scientists and\n   engineers.  There are persistent concerns that we aren't\n   attracting enough students to the space sciences.  By\n   all appearances, this concern has been leveraged by\n   the ARISS and related projects into substantial government\n   support for amateur radio in space.  Why can't we make more\n   use of this scheme?\n\no Supporting on-orbit experiments.  Provide space and telemetry\n   to on-orbit experiments provided by others.\n\no Provide technical assistance to microsat developers.  This\n   might both provide a source of support and might help put\n   more amateur communications payloads on small satellites.\n\nMost, if not all, of these approaches _have_ been used in the\npast to subsidize amateur communications satellites.  But, the\nmost widely quoted list of potential sources of funds seems to\nhave devolved into: emergency communications and education.\nWhat about all of the other other proven methods of supporting\namateur satellites?\n\nPerhaps, part of the problem is AMSAT's apparent nearly\nexclusive focus on amateur satellite users.  Look at AMSAT's\npublic image: its Web pages.  Should there be more content\non AMSAT's Web pages that might attract potential\ncollaborators who have money? Potential developers?\nPeople with interests in amateur satellites and amateur\nsatellite communications beyond using HEO voice transponders?\n\nWhat does AMSAT want to be when it grows up?  Who is its\ntarget audience?  Primarily amateur satellite users?  Or,\ndoes it want to attract a broader audience?\n\n-tjs\n\n",
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