RE: Fwd: Re: [amsat-bb] Another financial question

["Tony Langdon (ATC)" <tlangdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But are those fair questions?  AFTER Echo launched, it was 
> dragged through the HEO vs LEO and FM-only vs other-mode wars 
> that take up so much of this group.  It has been the stone on 
> which many different axes have been ground, but my 
> recollection is that the builders said they were trying to 
> prove out some digital techniques.  Seems to me that that is 
> the criterion by which to judge Echo.

That would be fair, as well as the viability of L and S band operations on a
LEO...
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