Why not take the awaiting ARISSAT engineering units already built and put a known battery in one of them? Uh Oh, Gould's stomach is growling--HA! Dee
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob- W7LRD Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Vega to launch in February We should have "something" sitting on the shelf "somewhere" just for these and whatever opportunities. 73 W7LRD ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:20:31 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Vega to launch in February David: You failed to quote the most fascinating part of the article: > The caution is well advised. Statistics show that some two-thirds of > the rockets introduced in the past 20 years have had an unsuccessful first outing. > > It is for this reason that the satellites carried on the "qualification" > flight have been given a free ride. OK, a 66% chance that our satellite would simply blow up, but a 33% chance that we could get a satellite a free ride into a polar orbit. Hmmm... Don't we have some hardware "sitting on the shelf" that we could offer up to the gods of maiden launches??? Like a linear transponder instead of a single-channel FM transponder? John, Amsat-NA LM #2292 W0JT On Jan 10 2012, [email protected] wrote: >FYI > >300 x 1450km > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16480111 > > > "Europe has named Thursday 9 February as the day it intends to launch its new Vega rocket for the very first time. > The 30m-tall vehicle has been developed to take payloads up to 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit, and will fly from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. > The project has been led by Italian industry and is years behind on its original schedule......... > > > > >David G0MRF > > >_______________________________________________ >Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
