[amsat-bb] Re: Don't Fly SuitSat2 to ISS (rebuttal)

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From: "Rocky Jones" <orbitjet at hotmail.com>
To: <n8fgv at usa.net>; "Amsat BB" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 7:38 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Don't Fly SuitSat2 to ISS (rebuttal)

As for AO-40.  It failed for the same reason that suitsat 1 did, and for the
same reason that a lot of people who build their own airplane kill
themselves every year trying to "test fly it"....the project got to big for
the organization that was building it...ie their technical competence was
insufficient for the task at hand.

But in your view (at least as best as I understand it) that evaluation
should not be made because "at least they tried".

sorry I dont buy that logic

Robert WB5MZO

Hi Robert, WB5MZO

Why in your opinion many commercial and military satellites fails every
year on launch or in orbit.....and even the STS-107 failed ?

Why for AO-40 in your opinion the project got to big for the organization
that was building it i.e. AMSAT that was building it ?

And why in your opinion the technical competence of AMSAt-NA+ AMSAT-DL
and many other AMSAT's partecipating  to designe and build AO-40 was
insufficient for the task at hand after demonstrating to be in condition to
create all existing amateur OSCAR satellites beginning from OSCAR-6 to
OSCAR-10 and OSCAR-13 ? ?

Just curious to know

73" de

i8CVS Domenico