29 Oct
2007
29 Oct
'07
6:24 p.m.
Michael Fletcher wrote:
Ah,
so here would be the window of opportunity for AMSAT-EU to start similar negotiations with Arianespace...
How about interlinking capability between the two geo-birds ;-)
Michael, OH2AUE
Michael:
If we get our way with Intelsat, there will be more than one payload and we are asking for large spacing.
They asked us about interlinking. I think it will be hard satellite to satellite because of path loss and pointing requirements for the necessary gain. The path loss would be larger than the path loss to the ground because of the increased distance. We can do sat-> ground -> sat easily enough.
Bob
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