Do you think that they would agree to fly anything other than ballast? Have you talked to the project manager? AMSAT has flown satellites using excess space in the past because the launch agency agreed years in advance and the satellites were built to fit in that space.
73,
John KD6OZH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Jones" [email protected] To: "Rocky Jones" [email protected] Cc: "Amsat BB" [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 17:12 UTC Subject: [amsat-bb] THE DMSP launch
"We have a unique opportunity with the Atlas 5/DMSP launch, as DMSP is a relatively lighter spacecraft than many of those that fly on Atlas. For that reason, we have a tremendous amount of performance margin. That's certainly not the case for some future missions that Atlas will be flying. So we're taking advantage of the opportunity before us to use some of that excess performance margin on the Atlas 5," said Col. Michael Moran, the Atlas Group commander.
to bad we didnt have something to use that excess performance...they flew ballast on the flight
Robert WB5MZO
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