12 Sep
2006
12 Sep
'06
2:20 a.m.
As I understand the proposal, the L/S package developers are welcome to use SDX. Jim
Matt Ettus wrote:
We offer that anyone willing can develop and submit fortesting and qualification a stand-alone L/S transponder to fly in one of the TSFR slots, using fixed antennas. It would be usable at/near Apogee, like the microwave packages on AO-13 and A)-40. What do you think? Les's discuss this.
Bad idea. We discussed having ONE SDX transponder and ONE digital communications payload. If for some reason it is decided that the DCP is on neither S1 nor L (which itself would be a bad idea...), AND it was decided that there was a desire for old-style transponders on L/S, then it makes sense to build it as part of the SDX, and not have a THIRD payload.
Matt