[amsat-bb] Latest SpaceX GEO launch cost.

[KC9SGV]

Lunar Gateway.
What a cool idea.
5 and dime up and down, maybe.
Useable whenever you can see the moon.
Just point and send...
I am all for that.

KC9SGV

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> On Aug 9, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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