Re: [amsat-bb] Cube Sats

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:54:07PM -0600, Jon Ogden wrote:
> Good point!  If UO-14 had been so software dependent, we might not now have
> the bent pipe repeater capability that we do now have.

On the other hand, a satellite with a receiver, a transmitter, and
a DSP in between is very flexible. It could be a packet satellite,
a linear transponder, an FM repeater, etc.

This might lead to more of those FM repeaters than non-software-programmable
satellites.

> I am very leery of the idea that we can just do everything in software. I've

Pardon me Jon but you seem to be weary of anything digital.

> seen too much of that attitude in the commercial world and it has cost me
> wages to say the least (as a hardware guy, one year I didn't get a bonus
> because the software people didn't have their act together).  Making

That's a great team attitude you have there.


Hamish
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