[amsat-bb] Latest SpaceX GEO launch cost.

[Burns Fisher]

The $250 million satellite cost in the article INCLUDED getting into
orbit.  According to
https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/spacex-price.gif, the
SpaceX price to GTO was $62Million in 2016, but that still counts as
staggering.  Of course this is for a dedicated launch.  As a secondary
payload it would be less but still way more than the cost to LEO (which
some might call affordable :-) )  And if you have followed the Virginia
Tech work with AMSAT, there has been an attempt to share a satellite in
geosynchronous orbit, but no luck yet.  Most commercial companies are not
too interested in adding risk or mass to their satellites (notice that the
AMOS satellite take up pretty nearly the full mass capability of the Falcon
9 to GEO.

But how about an ARISS ham package on the Lunar Gateway?  Now that's going
to be cool, and looks like it could really happen!

73,

Burns WB1FJ

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:51 AM Joe via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> I read that article twice, and I do not see any mention as the cost from
> Space X to put the Sat into orbit. All I see if the cost of the Sat
> only. Nothing about what it cost to get it into orbit.
>
> Joe WB9SBD
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> On 8/9/2019 8:31 AM, KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Just saw this latest effort by SpaceX to launch the Israeli AMOS
> satellite into GEO orbit.
> > The cost is staggering.
> >
> > Maybe we should go with somehow securing transponder bandwidth on
> existing GEO satellites as an alternative ?
> >
> >
> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launch-today-live-stream-falcon-9-set-to-launch-israeli-satellite-3-years-after-explosion-destroyed-first-one/
> >
> > Bernard,
> > KC9SGV
> >
> >
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