30 Mar
2010
30 Mar
'10
1:39 p.m.
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 11:44 -0400, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Rocky Jones wrote:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1003/27iridium/%60
these are all going on Musk Falcon. Robert WB5MZO Life member AMSAT ARRL
Interesting, but some deeper digging turns up some startling numbers. Iridium-NEXT's hosted payload specifications are 50kg, 30x40x70cm, and 50W average. That's impressive. The orbit will be 780km, 86.4 degree inclination, or roughly the same neighborhood as AO-51, AO-27, etc.
You could fly two Motorola Compact Base Stations in that space.
Gordon MM0YEQ