John,
I'm like you, grateful for a long series of great effort - Its a real crescendo of work just to launch and commission one of these satellites when everything goes per plan and works just right.
This time is a little different, we're probably going to learn more from AO-95, I'm taking this as I need to start collecting telemetry to support the need for more data to understand the status to see if more information may be revealed yielding better results in the future.
As long as the satellite is up there making power and transmitting the possibility exists we may use its transponder some day, takes no imagination to point out AO-7 as that example.
*I'm offering my hearty Thank You* for a whole program of satellites (AO-73,85,91,92, 95 ARISS et al), and hope that the entire Mission Team thats been working on all of these satellites has a great Holiday season with Family and Friends. I hope to see you in Orlando soon.
73 Mike W4UOO
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 9:44 PM John Brier johnbrier@gmail.com wrote:
Very sorry to all the engineers and others who worked on/with AO-95.
Thanks for your service to the community.
73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018, 19:48 Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
Fred,
Perhaps because there is little useful to be done or said at this point. We don’t know, and may never know for sure what the exact failure is.
Many
of those involved are also in some state of grieving right now after the years of effort put into this little satellite. Space is hard, and we do the best we can.
Rest assured that we will continue to monitor the satellite for any changes, and when the will to work the problem is a little stronger we
will
seek out some mega-erp EME stations to try to wiggle the RSSI to further diagnose the problem. Continued submission of telemetry is very important to this end.
73, Drew, KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations
On Dec 9, 2018, at 7:17 PM, Fred Castello fredcastello@gmail.com
wrote:
I am just curious why we are not discussing the apparent failure of the
receiver of AO-95. Do we know anything more about the issue?
Thanks all, Fred – KF4FC
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