Re: [amsat-bb] Longevity-sat proposal

["Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I thought the idea of a high circular orbit was rather good.  
Something perhaps a little higher, so that the bird would drift slowly 
across the sky.  Is there a problem with this?

The boom won't work, but in a circular orbit a slow roll in the opposite 
direction from the orbit should keep the antennas aimed toward Earth.

Greg  KO6TH


>From: Cathryn Mataga <cathrynm@junglevision.com>
>CC: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Longevity-sat proposal
>Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:51:07 -0800
>
>
>Woops, Okay, I see.  I've been informed by smarter people
>than me, that this is not going to work. Sorry for the noise.
>
>
>Cathryn Mataga wrote:
>
>>3.  Orbit 10km high, roughly circular over the equator.
>>     (The idea here is to hopefully get an orbit where we could
>>     talk to the satellite using a dish and a linear actuator.)
>>     Would be a daytime satellite anyway.  Good
>>     for field day, things like this, I suppose.  Don't know how hard
>>     it is to get to this place.
>>4.  Satellite points toward earth using Gravity boom. Spin stabilized.
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