Hi Peter,
Thanks for responding. I am amazed by your reaction to a simple post. Calling it "crude, false, blinded by rage" is quite a statement. But hey, you have every right to your opinion!
Now then, please help me and others understand your comments you made at AMSAT-UK (listed below):
"The amateur community in general is not interested in Cubesats, "I know some of you might not like to hear that "It might sound like a high nose attitude, but it is life "Those that have done P3 satellites have no interest in Cubesats
If those statements, which by the way come directly from the AMSAT-UK video of your presentation (available online) are made by the president of AMSAT-DL at an international meeting, I certainly do not call this an endorsement but rather a denouncement of AMSAT-DL's interest in cubesats.
If you call this "crude, false and blinded by rage"... I am not sure what your talking about and it certainly does not help or aid in the discussion.
The simple basic fact is that AMSAT-DL under your leadership is not building, designing or planning any CubeSat projects (as far as I know). Now, please prove me wrong. I would love to support (financially) an AMSAT-DL Cubesat mission.
Stefan VE4NSA (DG1GWS)
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Peter Guelzow peter.guelzow@kourou.de wrote:
On 08.12.2011 16:17, Stefan Wagener wrote:
very simple, politics.
AMSAT-DL's leadership has openly denouced Cubesats. So two of the biggest AMSATs either can't or don't want to. Talk about a pathetic situation for our community.
Stefan VE4NSA
I don't know what kind of problem you have and why you make such crude and false presences.
What is so wrong when we are saying that we (the AMSAT-DL members and BOD) want to build and fly another "AMSAT P3-E" rather than a CubeSat?
Should we scrap P3-E for the sake of another CubeSat??
Neither does the AMSAT-DL BOD nor does our membership condemn or disapprove CubeSats.
In the past years we had CubeSat team from German Universities coming to our Symposium. We have even given advice to some of them or help *if wanted*. We also attended a critical design review of SwissCube, etc.. I was personally at the CubeSat laboratory of the University of Tokyo a couple of years ago to see some of their first CubeSats and discuss some ideas with the Students and their Professor.
We have simply decided to concentrate our efforts to what is more important for our community.
If you would have listen *carefuly* and not blinded by rage to what I have said during the AMSAT-UK Colloquium, you would not make repeatedly such statements...
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