[amsat-bb] Re: Eagle costs

[RaySoifer@xxxxxx]

Hi,

Dream on, some of you, if you want, but the truth is as Bob McGwier and Bob 
Bruninga have said.  If you want a satellite in HEO orbit, it will cost more 
than $1M to buy the launch to put it there, probably closer to $2-3M.  That 
doesn't include the cost of building the satellite, which as Bob McGwier has said, 
mainly results from things other than the transponders and antennas.

If you want an Eagle, you'll have to find ways of raising the money to build 
and launch it.  As Martin Sweeting keeps reminding us, "there's no such thing 
as a free launch."

73, Ray W2RS  
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