Or, another way of comparing the cost of $8000 for 3 weeks operation is:

TubeSat $8000 for 21 days = $380 per day

AO-51 $100,000 for 1850 days = $54 per day. and if it lasts for another 5 years. $27 per day.

What a good deal AO-51 was. Thank you Robin/Spacequest/AMSAT-NA

Regards

David

In a message dated 04/08/2009 01:16:11 GMT Standard Time, jeffrey.davis@mac.com writes:

For MUCH less than the price of an IC-7800...

"Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital’s TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions."