[amsat-bb] AMSAT P4A: the worlds first ham radio transponders in geosynchronous orbit

[Paul Stoetzer]

"Maybe food for thought stateside, how something similar could be
negotiated with the NA space industry ?"

I believe there was an offer some years back from Intelsat to fly an
amateur payload on one of their geostationary satellites, but the
ongoing costs were too high for AMSAT-NA to finance.

Unfortunately, no public corporation in the United States is going to
donate extremely valuable surplus space and power on a geostationary
satellite to the amateur radio community. In a country like Qatar,
things like this may be done as a way of promoting national prestige,
but to do something similar here, we'll have to figure out how to pay
the bills.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Michael Fletcher <oh2aue at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>
> It is now the second day of the ITU Symposium and Workshop on small
> satellite regulation and communication systems (Prague, Czech
> Republic, 2-4 March 2015).
>
> The symposium is streamed live at:
>
> http://media.fel.cvut.cz/stream/itu.asx
>
> Apparently this will only work with Windows Media Player.
> Todays lectures just started with SSTL.
>
> There is a presentation at ~17:50 local time:
>
> "Es’hail-2 Satellite AMSAT Payload"
>
> The presentation schedule may be found here:
>
> http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/workshops/2015-prague-small-sat/Documents/ITU-Symposium-PRAGUE-A4.pdf
>
> This presentation covers also frequencies, polarisation data and
> block diagrams of the implementation.
>
> Maybe food for thought stateside, how something similar could be
> negotiated with the NA space industry ? With some clever planning,
> maybe even some continent hopping could be implemented ;-)
>
> Symposium main page:
>
> http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/workshops/2015-prague-small-sat/Pages/default.aspx
>
> Michael, OH2AUE
>
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