[amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites

[Jim Jerzycke]

Numbers for just the cost of an Amateur payload, or numbers for the 
whole satellite?

A 'typical' satellite costs from 150 million to 300 million, depending 
on what hardware it carries.

The cost of a launch to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit ranges from 95 
million to 150 million depending on the launch provider.

Jim  KQ6EA

On 10/10/2011 10:41 PM, Tom Schaefer, NY4I wrote:
> Has anyone run the numbers? Are we talking 20 million, 100 million?
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> Let's see, there are at best 5000 satellite ops. So, if it cost $20,000,000 we are each in it for $4000. I'm game. Now to convince 4999 of my friends. :)
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> Seriously, you think it gets boring talking to us same guys on AO-51 each day? Try that for a giant repeater in space. That would be wide area. I know we hear that something like P3D would just cost too much, but this is a lot of dough to talk to friends across the country at drive time. The wider orbits make for more interesting conversations. Not that I don;t want to talk to you every day :)
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> Tom
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> Tom Schaefer, NY4I
> ny4i at arrl.net
> EL88pb
> Monitoring EchoLink node KJ4FEC-L 489389
> DSTAR Capable  APRS: NY4I-15
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> On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
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>> Don,
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>> Cost, which is enough to drop any other issues to noise level.  That is the
>> High Rent District, and given how much the commercial users pay, they would
>> not want to have an "amateur" satellite wandering around.  More practically,
>> it would be nice to have a package on a commercial satellite.  They provide
>> the power, pointing, and control.  We just provide the RF.  Again, cost,
>> though we have been looking for the right opportunity.
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>> Another drawback is that a geosynch only provides coverage to _about_ a
>> third of the earth, and it is always the same third.  Birds like AO-13 and
>> AO-40 covered just about all of it over the space of a few days.  Did I
>> mention cost?  It is fun to think about having 3 which could be linked for
>> true global coverage.
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>> Alan
>> WA4SCA
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
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>> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 4:23 PM
>> To: AMSAT-BB at amsat.org
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Geostationary Satellites
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>> Hello Hope Everyone is doing Well, I know people say no such thing as a dumb
>> question So here goes What is the reason We do not have any Type of
>> geostationary Satellites. Is it because they are for World Wide Use and If
>> stationary one could Hit it 24/7 and Maybe park there butt on it and Run a
>> Beam and Amp and take it over
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>> Thanks
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>> 73 De Don KA9QJG
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