I have a feeling that if a ESA member nation AMSAT group had a cubesat ready to fly, it might be able to go. This situation is part of the Fox plan as I understand it, to build more than one satellite, and have a "hot spare" for such an opportunity.
73, Drew KO4MA
PS Andy, we do a little better than every 5 years. If you look at DO-64, ARISSat-1, SO-67 and HO-68, we've averaged one a year over the past 4 years.
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From: Stefan Wagener wageners@gmail.com Sent: Dec 8, 2011 10:17 AM To: Andy Kellner hawat1@yahoo.com Cc: "amsat-bb@amsat.org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 9 cubesats on board Vega
Hi Andreas,
very simple, politics.
ITAR is killing AMSAT-NA and 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
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Andy Kellner hawat1@yahoo.com wrote:
I'll be darned. 9 (nine!) cubesats on board of this launch vehicle and the whole world wide amateur radio community has major problems finding somebody to launch 1 every 5 years ? Whats wrong with this picture ? I would like to find out why ESA for example has no problems launching the cubesats by the dozend (for free i bet you), but refuse to carry just one for us. Does somebody has ESA's email address ? :) Is it really all about the educational aspect of things ? We can use that sales pitch, too.
Andreas - VK4HHH
From: Trevor . m5aka@yahoo.co.uk To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 9:56 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: LARES To Test Einstein's Theory
--- On Thu, 8/12/11, Bob- W7LRD w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:
can't we squeeze a little bird in there?
They'll be some CubeSat's on the launch I believe going into a 1500 by 300 km orbit see
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Education/SEM3N03MDAF_0.html
73 Trevor M5AKA
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