Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
What needs to be donated? Technical expertise? Parts? Ground
transportation?
Meeting rooms? Negotiation skill? Political contacts? Clean room time?
Payload space?
The main thing that we need is a launch vehicle. Once we find a ride to orbit, everything else will follow... ------
Les Rayburn wrote:
One application for a geostationary satellite that should not be discounted
would be emergency communications.
AMSAT has pitched the emergency communications angle to FEMA and other agencies, so far none have bitten on it. ------
Jean Marc (3B8DU) wrote:
E.g. Apollo moon landing success was made just by the vision of a strong
leader
(and surely the team behind him) who federate a nation (US) behind same.
The fear that the USSR would get to the Moon first was a powerful motivation for Apollo, one that convinced the US Congress to commit up to 4% of the national budget. I'm afraid that AMSAT does not have the capability to inspire that level of fear.
73, Dan Schultz N8FGV