Geez! When are you guys going to get the point. There appears to be absolutely no way to get a launch without the help of outside funding. Do you really think that someone is going to help fund a launch just so you can use the satellite for the sole purpose of yakking about whatever strikes your fancy at the moment? There is going to have to be some other tangible, useful reason for the satellite to be in orbit. Anyway, the fact is that emergency communications is a corner stone of the Amateur service in the first place. The only real problem I have with the mission and vision statements is that the vision statement now appears to have a somewhat unrealistic time frame. I'm sure we should get some answers about that soon. 73, Michael, W4HIJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Busch" tom@bloomington.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:03 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Reminder of the AMSAT Mission
Nowhere in there is mention of emergency communication. Yet it pops up again and again on the Eagle and Namaste boards.
AMSAT should stick to its mission.
TomB
Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Just as a reminder....Drew
AMSAT is a non-profit volunteer organization which designs, builds and operates experimental satellites and promotes space education. We work in partnership with government, industry, educational institutions and fellow amateur radio societies. We encourage technical and scientific innovation, and promote the training and development of skilled satellite and ground system designers and operators.
Our Vision is to deploy high earth orbit satellite systems that offer daily coverage by 2009 and continuous coverage by 2012. AMSAT will continue active participation in human space missions and support a stream of LEO satellites developed in cooperation with the educational community and other amateur satellite groups.