I should have had more Diet Pepsi before sending that last email. DMC as mentioned in the article is obviously related to this program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Monitoring_Constellation , with SSTL at the core.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Glasbrenner
Sent: Jul 10, 2008 9:07 AM
To: JoAnne Maenpaa , eagle@amsat.org
Cc: bod@amsat.org
Subject: Re: [eagle] EU Tests Disaster Management Satellite

The UN-SPIDER program and related groups might be a source of funding...even for P3E. Having open-access wide area comms available for free would certainly fall in with the stated purpose I saw on the webpage.

http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/unspider/index.html

I have a sneaking suspicion the demo in the article is LEO, mainly because of the imaging they discussed, but it's a start.

73, Drew KO4MA

-----Original Message-----
From: JoAnne Maenpaa
Sent: Jul 10, 2008 8:22 AM
To: eagle@amsat.org
Subject: [eagle] EU Tests Disaster Management Satellite

Good morning,

Disaster management experts of the European Union tested a satellite based system for monitoring disaster areas:

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Exercise_For_Rapid_Disaster_Relief_Using_Space_Based_Technologies_999.html

Perhaps this will someday present another rideshare opportunity for offering an amateur radio emergency communications package? Or, hopefully not, “No thanks, we already have our own …”

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73 de JoAnne K9JKM

k9jkm@amsat.org