22 Dec
2009
22 Dec
'09
8:56 p.m.
The front cover of the latest AMSAT-DL Journal shows the internally nearly complete P3e. It is truly an international debacle that this continues to sit in storage in Marburg when there is a plethora of launch capacity around the world to put this thing up.
We need a low friend in a high place more than ever in our history.
Bob N4HY
John B. Stephensen wrote:
There in no launch date for either. There are no more inexpensive launches available from ESA so the AMSATs are trying to get non-amateur funding to pay for HEO launches. Assume LEO satellites for the next few years as launch costs are much lower. CAMSAT just launched one, AMSAT-NA plans on launching two and there are others in the works.
73
John KD6OZH
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