[amsat-bb] Re: ESA lunar probe

[Bob- W7LRD]

Just for the sake of conversation and thinking.  What would the link budget look like for a transponder on the moon.  

Bob W7LRD 



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From: "R Oler" <orbitjet at hotmail.com> 
To: "Amsat BB" <amsat-bb at amsat.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 4:10:00 PM 
Subject: [amsat-bb] ESA lunar probe 


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15574653 

to bad there cant be an amateur radio payload even a really small one...this probe should be "longer lived" then most as it should have a constant energy source... 

Wonder why the Europeans are thinking of sending Phase 5A to Mars?  It will probably never fly and almost no hams can be a part of that...so well why not send it to L2 in the Earth Moon systems...a halo orbit... 

Robert G. Oler WB5MZO Life Member AMSAT ARRL NARS 
                                                
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