[amsat-bb] Re: Phase 4 versus Eagle

[Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL]

At 04:21 PM 12/11/07 -0800, n2oeq at aceweb.com wrote:
>Merry Christmas to all my fellow space enthusiasts
>
>Nice to see some informative Big Picture discussion here.
>
>For all its worth;  I believe a cooperative effort with an 
>established  satellite builder incorporating an auxilliary payload makes 
>more sense than an independant effort with more complexity and cost.
>
>Who really would'nt want a geosynchronise transponder?


I want to see NA put Eagle in orbit before anything else. They already put 
Eagle on the back burner once to build a grid-sat.

Looks like waiting to see if the BOD was really serious about doing Eagle 
before I'd be making any donations to it turned out to be a good decision.