[amsat-bb] Re: Iridium to Burn

[Mark Fellhauer <sparkfel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:13 PM 3/18/00 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:

 >I'm not sure how useful they would be to HAMS:
 >

My comments were made tongue-in-cheek.  It was a mild attempt at humor.

 >
 >I think one of the best things to come out of this was the demonstration
 >that is possible to mass-produce satellites that are reliable. I believe
 >Motorola had the cycle time for building/testing an Iridium satellite down
 >about 4 DAYS instead of the industry average of several months.
 >

Don't know where you got your figures.  Maybe they could ASSEMBLE the
component parts and test them in four days, but the part I was involved in,
reaction wheel assembly, took hundreds of man hours and several weeks per RWA.


Mark





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