11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
11:20 p.m.
--- On Tue, 11/10/11, Joe nss@mwt.net wrote:
How hard (Energy) budget is it to have that giant elliptical orbit, I can't remember what bird had it, but it was an orbit named like moylina or something like that where the perigee was very low but the apogee was like WAY out there giving passes that were extremely long.
It's a great orbit, AO-40 was aiming for it.
Bottom line is cost - $10-15 million for launch to Geo transfer orbit and then costs of incorporating and controlling a motor on the sat to get it to Moylina.
You should be able to build the sat for a million or so - it's the launch costs that are the killer.
73 Trevor M5AKA