A couple of responses come to mind NOT DIRECTED AT ANYONE IN PARTICULAR (sorry for yelling)
1) If ham's left AMSAT because of AO-40 failure we cannot do anything about that. That was their choice. We need to be thankful for the many who have stayed with their talent and $. 2) Remember NASA's recent failed flights to mars a few years ago. How about the one that failed because of the feet to meter conversion problem. Failure is a fact of life. We are humans, we fail. We learn from the past and move on. Having been an engineer who was accused of failing on a big project I can tell you it can happen to you (the collective you). It's life. Unless we have ALL the information from the post failure investigation (which I suspect we don't) since we cannot draw firm conclusions. Seem the current documentation quoted was a little fuzzy. 3) I think SuitSat2 is a great place to test hardware and have fun while it lasts. Thank you Russia for working with us, wish our government worked with us (I know why they can't). I can say that I worked through a hand launched 4) This has been a good discussion to follow.
73 to all Dave WB7DRU
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