[amsat-bb] Re: NASA's Edison Small Satellite Demonstration Program

[Trevor .]

Some of the orbits are very short lifetime but there are some useful ones there:

DoD (Minotaur I) 350-500 km 40-45°
DoD (Minotaur IV)685 km 72°
NASA CRS/COTS 300 km 51°
EELV 300 x 23,000 km <28°
Sun-Synchronous 500 – 1000 km 98°

73 Trevor M5AKA

--- On Fri, 3/2/12, Bill Ress <bill at hsmicrowave.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Ress <bill at hsmicrowave.com>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] NASA's Edison Small Satellite Demonstration Program
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Date: Friday, 3 February, 2012, 16:01
> See the followwing link..........
> http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=2062771302
> 
> Regards...Bill - N6GHz
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