At the Satellite2014 conference in Washington D.C. this year I floated an idea past a couple of the major GEO satellite operators for a hosted payload that consisted of a 1.2 GHz receiver package that used the low end of an existing C band global beam transponder (3.4 GHz.) as the downlink. I didn't get laughed at or dismissed and even got indications that "maybe" this could be done with a one time fee.

That said, I think the success of many of the very small satellites, like $50sat, demonstrates that with a distributed team collectively working to a well defined mission a Cubesat HEO is possible.

- Howie, AB2S

From: g.shirville@btinternet.com To: n8hm@arrl.net Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:19:35 +0100 CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] GTO opportunity

Many thanks Paul, I will have a good look at it!

73

Graham

-----Original Message----- From: Paul Stoetzer Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 11:45 AM To: Graham Shirville Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] GTO opportunity

Graham,

Dan Schultz, N8FGV, gave a presentation at the AMSAT Symposium last year entitled "Cubesats in HEO - A Challenging Mission for AMSAT." A copy of the presentation is located here: http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/AMSAT-NA_Symposium2013/Sc...

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Graham Shirville g.shirville@btinternet.com wrote:

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Hi All,

I know that this subject is a very “old chestnut” but I came across this website earlier today http://spaceflightservices.com/

You can see, perhaps for the first time?, a list of opportunities and pricing structures.

I have been pondering :

Whether a 3U CubeSat to GTO could be funded by the community Whether it would have enough power for attitude control and a sufficiently powerful transponder Whether it could have deployable antennas as well as solar panels? Combined?

and, of course, lots more questions come to mind.

This could make the subject of an interesting debate/discussion at the upcoming AMSAT-UK Colloquium at the end of the month?

I am looking forward to it already!

best 73

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