[amsat-bb] Re: High LEO for cubesat?

[Robert Bruninga]

> Much of the debate on the board here arises 
> from our common desire to see the launching 
> of satellites with a larger footprint.

For what it is worth, this semester I will finally get a student
to work on the 40 year old AMSAT idea of a water rocket.  (Carry
water to orbit and use solar power to electrolizie the wate to
H2 and O2 and then burn those in a thruster to raise the orbit
of a cubesat.

Mostly the goal is to get from the very low (short lived) LEO to
a higher LEO to get longer life, but it will be fun to get this
project going again.  I had a working model about a dozen years
ago, but it eventually blew up..  Now we will get another one
built probably...

Bob