Numbers for just the cost of an Amateur payload, or numbers for the whole satellite?
A 'typical' satellite costs from 150 million to 300 million, depending on what hardware it carries.
The cost of a launch to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit ranges from 95 million to 150 million depending on the launch provider.
Jim KQ6EA
On 10/10/2011 10:41 PM, Tom Schaefer, NY4I wrote:
Has anyone run the numbers? Are we talking 20 million, 100 million?
Let's see, there are at best 5000 satellite ops. So, if it cost $20,000,000 we are each in it for $4000. I'm game. Now to convince 4999 of my friends. :)
Seriously, you think it gets boring talking to us same guys on AO-51 each day? Try that for a giant repeater in space. That would be wide area. I know we hear that something like P3D would just cost too much, but this is a lot of dough to talk to friends across the country at drive time. The wider orbits make for more interesting conversations. Not that I don;t want to talk to you every day :)
Tom
Tom Schaefer, NY4I ny4i@arrl.net EL88pb Monitoring EchoLink node KJ4FEC-L 489389 DSTAR Capable APRS: NY4I-15
On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Don,
Cost, which is enough to drop any other issues to noise level. That is the High Rent District, and given how much the commercial users pay, they would not want to have an "amateur" satellite wandering around. More practically, it would be nice to have a package on a commercial satellite. They provide the power, pointing, and control. We just provide the RF. Again, cost, though we have been looking for the right opportunity.
Another drawback is that a geosynch only provides coverage to _about_ a third of the earth, and it is always the same third. Birds like AO-13 and AO-40 covered just about all of it over the space of a few days. Did I mention cost? It is fun to think about having 3 which could be linked for true global coverage.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of ka9qjg Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 4:23 PM To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Geostationary Satellites
Hello Hope Everyone is doing Well, I know people say no such thing as a dumb question So here goes What is the reason We do not have any Type of geostationary Satellites. Is it because they are for World Wide Use and If stationary one could Hit it 24/7 and Maybe park there butt on it and Run a Beam and Amp and take it over
Thanks
73 De Don KA9QJG
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