Hi Stefan, VE4NSA I believe that ESA is interested to have a payload placed on the moon only to make important and particular experiments that are impossible to manage to put something into earth orbit.
The capability of an Amateur Radio transponder to communicate between us or for educational outreach and training opportunities associated with it can be experimented even placing a transponder on earth orbit or on top of a hill. As you realize for the moment ESA seems to be not to much interested on satellite amateur radio P3E and scientific probe P5A to Mars,figure out to place an amateur radio transponder on the Moon. 73" de i8CVS Domenico ----- Original Message ----- From: Stefan Wagener To: i8cvs Cc: Amsat - BBs Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] European Lunar Lander - Call for Declarations of Interest Yes Domenico, You are correct. However, that particular ESA proposal is not about putting it into orbit. It is an opportunity to have a payload placed on the moon. Once ESA has a proposal to put something into orbit, by all means. Hope this helps, Stefan On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:31 AM, i8cvs <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Stefan, VE4NSA It does not make sense to put a transponder on the Moon just for the simple reason that it's much more, simple and cheap to put it into earth orbit. 73" de i8CVS Domenico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Wagener" <[email protected]> To: "Amsat - BBs" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:06 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] European Lunar Lander - Call for Declarations of Interest > ESA has posted a very unique opportunity: > > http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/HSF_Research/SEMGUMZWD2H_2.html > > Wouldn't it be great if the key AMSAT organizations put a proposal together > to put a ham radio transponder on the moon. It can have all the cool > educational outreach and training opportunities associated with it. Let's > encourage the AMSAT leadership teams to move quickly. We can do it, don't > you think? > > Stefan VE4NSA > _______________________________________________ > 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
