[amsat-bb] Re: Geostationary Satellites

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:08:01 -0400
Ken Ernandes <n2wwd at mindspring.com> wrote:

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> I hope this is somehow helpful in understanding what AMSAT would really be up against if it  wanted to have an independent GEO satellite or consider a sub-GEO drifting orbit.

Thank you Ken, for the rocket scientist's take on it ;-)

It's refreshing to hear someone who actually has sat down and done the maths comment on how easy or hard it would be to put a satellite into a high orbit.

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Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>