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

[G0MRF at aol.com]

But given that the opportunity is looking for proposals in the field of  
communications and propulsion, it sounds like a good chance to team up with 
one  of the university groups who are working on miniature Ion engines.  They  
are about 3 inches across and use as little as 36W.   A 3U cube could  
house one of those and you could target orbital transfer and space qualification 
 as the objective.  The engine part could be project managed while the 
comms  and structure could be taken on within AMSAT.
 
Thanks
 
David
 
 
In a message dated 03/02/2012 16:58:34 GMT Standard Time, m5aka at yahoo.co.uk 
 writes:

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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