10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
11:04 p.m.
At 09:24 AM 10/11/2011, Bob- W7LRD wrote:
simple reason money money!! We should all pool our Visa cards and create another AO-40 (sobsob).
Oh, if I had the money, I'd love to chip in something for another AO-40 like bird, but not so keen on its originally planned orbit, because down here, the elevation would have been less than 20 degrees most of the time, except near perigee, when there's not a lot of places within the footprint. I wonder what a good "compromise" orbital inclination would be for a P3 type amateur sat. Equatorial orbits make it hard for higher northern latitudes, while high inclination orbits make southern hemisphere access more difficult.
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