I agree not matter what you do unless its absolutely perfect and even when it is someone has something to cry about. I am a small part of the ARISS operations team and fairly new Area Coordinator. I understanf the complaints. I also was leary of calling it ARISSat because ARISS really only gave its name. Locally the failure of Yuris Night did little to promote ARISS quite the contrary. Remember this started as Suit Sat 2 and was or is a Russian experiment as was Suit Sat 1. ARISS has been working the STEM of ham radio long before it was cool.
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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 19:43:37 +0000 From: johnag9d@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Moans and Groans
I agree not matter what you do unless its absolutely perfect and even when it is someone has something to cry about. >>
That really is a hoot.
I've stayed away from commenting on this because I disagree with the entire program effort...but the comment you and others have made about "perfect" vrs "absolutely perfect"...drew me in.
With the current issue of the "bird" we are not talking about the difference between perfect and almost perfect we are talking about a major error (tossing without the antenna on) which has deleted significant payload capability.
It is reasonable to ask "why this happened".
Robert G. Oler Life Member AMSAT ARRL NARS
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