Perhaps when commercial vehicles like the Falcon 9 begin launching, we'll see a sufficient reduction in payload boosting costs to make raising the money for a HEO satellite with significant mass reasonable. We shall have to see.
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Mark if there is a future for amateur HEO's the birds are going to be more Arsene and Oscar IV size.
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