A number of BB participants have already indicated that they WON'T fund a satellite that they don't want, which begs the question: will Eagle fly, period? Has the design committee effectively killed the bird by killing enough interest?
I hope not, but time will be the judge. I am disappointed by the loss of mode S, but would rather at least have a V/U HEO than no HEO. (I still maintain that the dire predictions for 2.4 GHz will not come to pass)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily Clarke" emily@clarke-design.com To: "George Henry" ka3hsw@earthlink.net Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Eagle Satellite Design
Most likely AMSAT wouldn't let you do it - it would interfere with the primary mission. Besides - why should AMSAT members fund a satellite they don't want, and they have to pay even more to rent space for a payload they do want?
73,
Emily
At 11:09 AM 9/9/2006, you wrote:
So, how much to rent one of the TSFR spaces? Maybe all of us who still believe in S-Band could pool our funds to fly our own transponder..... fund the mode instead of the bird?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hambly (W2GPS)" w2gps@cnssys.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 5:21 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Eagle Satellite Design
<snip> > > c) There are at least two TSFR (This-Space-For-Rent) packages that > could > possibly contain other RF or other payloads, conditioned on the > availability > of power, antenna space and compatibility with the primary payloads.