[amsat-bb] Re: Messageboard Post

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:33 +0000, John B. Stephensen wrote:

ats in 800 km orbits have much lower launch costs. However, the vast majority of members told AMSAT that they didn't want more LEO satellites after AO-51. Perhaps small is better.

For the kind of money that cubesats cost, you could launch about a dozen of them instead of one geosynchronous one. That way you'd *always* have a cubesat or two visible. Add some sat-to-sat comms, and you're in business.

Gordon