[amsat-bb] Re: NASA Kills Ulysses

[Andrew Koenig]

This whole discussion relates back to Bob's proposed idea of having several
Cubesats on standby in the event that we're given a last minute opportunity
to launch.

I think that'd be the place to start.

73 de KE5GDB

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Luc Leblanc <lucleblanc6 at videotron.ca>wrote:

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> Hello planners!
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> Some launch test are planned for Aries I rocket is it possible that some
> free dummy payload space will be available?
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> http://powerfromspace.blogspot.com/2008/05/aries-rocket-motor-test-video-clips.html
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> Full screen on You tube
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY2CcZk_aNQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpowerfromspace.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Faries-rocket-motor-test-video-
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> Pop up you volume...
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> On 1 Jul 2009 at 12:43, David - KG4ZLB wrote:
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> > I know it would be expensive but on the "if you spread your net wide
> > enough" view of thinking, could we not approach commercial satellite
> > projects prior to launch and bung a transponder on them only to be used
> > when the primary mission fails? OK, so you might win some, might lose
> > some and I know it would be expensive but it seems better than the
> > situation we have now, plus we could be potentially building in some
> > long term birds that would replace the current ageing fleet. It would be
> > a long term view, but it would be something!
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> > Presumably this has been brought up before but no harm in re-hashing it
> > for any new ideas especially with the BoD voting soon to happen! :-D
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> > 73
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> > David
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Andrew Koenig