Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:

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What needs to be donated? Technical expertise? Parts? Ground

transportation?

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Meeting rooms? Negotiation skill? Political contacts? Clean room time?

Payload space?

The main thing that we need is a launch vehicle. Once we find a ride to orbit, everything else will follow... ------

Les Rayburn wrote:

One application for a geostationary satellite that should not be discounted

would be emergency communications.

AMSAT has pitched the emergency communications angle to FEMA and other agencies, so far none have bitten on it. ------

Jean Marc (3B8DU) wrote:

E.g. Apollo moon landing success was made just by the vision of a strong

leader

(and surely the team behind him) who federate a nation (US) behind same.

The fear that the USSR would get to the Moon first was a powerful motivation for Apollo, one that convinced the US Congress to commit up to 4% of the national budget. I'm afraid that AMSAT does not have the capability to inspire that level of fear.

73, Dan Schultz N8FGV