Hi Drew,
Good idea - but the lines of communications to the Russian satellite folks don't appear to be open to allow discussion about any collaboration. To my knowledge, there has never been any collaboration - so maybe the time is right if ITAR doesn't kill that idea off at the knees.
Perhaps a serious initiative by the AMSAT-NA Board might produce the dialog permitting a joint Amateur satellite venture. There is the AMSAT-R but I'm not sure how active they are. Nothing ventured - nothing gained!!
I would welcome any of our Russian Amateur (especially AMSAT-R) readers of this thread to weight in with their thoughts regarding any future collaboration.
Yes indeed - a very nice orbit!!
Regards...Bill - N6GHz
Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Well said Ken! Grumping about after the fact serves no useful purpose, and some of the comments I've seen seem very selfish and "me first". While it would be nice to have an open two-way package on RS-30, the designers and builders of that satellite in reality owe us nothing.
Perhaps an interested group could offer to build or sponsor a transponder on the _next_ launch to that orbit?
73, Drew KO4MA
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