This whole discussion relates back to Bob's proposed idea of having several Cubesats on standby in the event that we're given a last minute opportunity to launch.
I think that'd be the place to start.
73 de KE5GDB
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Luc Leblanc [email protected]wrote:
Hello planners!
Some launch test are planned for Aries I rocket is it possible that some free dummy payload space will be available?
http://powerfromspace.blogspot.com/2008/05/aries-rocket-motor-test-video-cli...
Full screen on You tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY2CcZk_aNQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpowerfromsp... clips.html&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY2CcZk_aNQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpowerfromspace.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Faries-rocket-motor-test-video-%0Aclips.html&feature=player_embedded
Pop up you volume...
On 1 Jul 2009 at 12:43, David - KG4ZLB wrote:
I know it would be expensive but on the "if you spread your net wide enough" view of thinking, could we not approach commercial satellite projects prior to launch and bung a transponder on them only to be used when the primary mission fails? OK, so you might win some, might lose some and I know it would be expensive but it seems better than the situation we have now, plus we could be potentially building in some long term birds that would replace the current ageing fleet. It would be a long term view, but it would be something!
Presumably this has been brought up before but no harm in re-hashing it for any new ideas especially with the BoD voting soon to happen! :-D
73
David
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