"Maybe food for thought stateside, how something similar could be negotiated with the NA space industry ?"
I believe there was an offer some years back from Intelsat to fly an amateur payload on one of their geostationary satellites, but the ongoing costs were too high for AMSAT-NA to finance.
Unfortunately, no public corporation in the United States is going to donate extremely valuable surplus space and power on a geostationary satellite to the amateur radio community. In a country like Qatar, things like this may be done as a way of promoting national prestige, but to do something similar here, we'll have to figure out how to pay the bills.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Michael Fletcher oh2aue@kolumbus.fi wrote:
It is now the second day of the ITU Symposium and Workshop on small satellite regulation and communication systems (Prague, Czech Republic, 2-4 March 2015).
The symposium is streamed live at:
http://media.fel.cvut.cz/stream/itu.asx
Apparently this will only work with Windows Media Player. Todays lectures just started with SSTL.
There is a presentation at ~17:50 local time:
"Es’hail-2 Satellite AMSAT Payload"
The presentation schedule may be found here:
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/workshops/2015-prague-small-sat/Documents/...
This presentation covers also frequencies, polarisation data and block diagrams of the implementation.
Maybe food for thought stateside, how something similar could be negotiated with the NA space industry ? With some clever planning, maybe even some continent hopping could be implemented ;-)
Symposium main page:
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/workshops/2015-prague-small-sat/Pages/defa...
Michael, OH2AUE
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