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Fwd: Future radical satellite designs
- Subject: [amsat-bb] Fwd: Future radical satellite designs
- From: "Margaret Leber" <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 08:27:59 -0400
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On 7/8/07, Patrick McGrane <N2OEQ@aceweb.com> wrote:
> Some will argue that they want continuous duty whenever the satellite is in range, day or night.
> I would like to see a longer lived satellite capable of full power half the time that could
> potentially last several decades in orbit.
That's really insightful. So many of the birds end up operating in
that mode *anyway*; what could be accomplished if we designed them
that way on purpose?
--
73 de Maggie K3XS
Editor, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club Blurb - http://www.phil-mont.org
Elecraft K2 #1641 -- AOPA 925383 -- ARRL 39280
By the way, inbound email is broken on the address you're using: "SMTP
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