It is certainly possible, although with Intelsat launching multiple times per year it isn't really necessary. It is also likely we would not need a motor for Eagle in this case as well. W4SCO expressed doubts at Intelsat willingness to do this, when in fact they were advertising their willingness when we found the opportunity.
The following is not addressed to you Ollie: Everyone needs to step back and take a few deep breaths, and cut it with the accusations of impropriety before things get really ugly. Some of the accusations have really been uninformed and out of line by any standard. The BOD and leadership are doing EVERYTHING they can to get something going. The four BOD seats and the alternate basically went uncontested last election. If anyone thinks they can do better, by all means, run. I did. It's not as simple as many seem to think.
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ollie Eisman" ollie@earthrobot.com To: "AMSAT BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:53 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Phase 4 versus Eagle
Given this additional information, is there any possibility of launching Eagle on the way up *and* having a payload on the Intelsat, as was previously mentioned? Talk about having your cake and eating it, too :)
Ollie AJ1O
Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
One of the possibilities I have not seen relayed well from the meetings to general knowledge is that it may be possible for Intelsat to attach Eagle to one of their satellites, and drop us off in GTO on their way to GEO. This possibility alone is worth working this opportunity out to it's conclusion.
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73, Drew KO4MA
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