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

[Alan VE4YZ]

Bob, do you really mean a CubeSat or any picosat?

Recent CubeSat Spec changes have increase mass to 1.333kg/cube or 4kg for a
triple cube which could play nicely into your plans to giving you more water
to zap when in orbit.

http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/media/CDS_rev12.pdf

You have indeed taken on a big challenge of not only the propulsion of a
CubeSat but also stabilizing and orienting it for each burn.

Please keep us posted on developments.

73, Alan VE4YZ
EN19kv
AMSAT LM 2352 
http://www.wincube.ca

 

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Sent: August 25, 2009 10:45 PM
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: High LEO for cubesat?



> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Robert Bruninga<bruninga at usna.edu>
wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Bob --
>