Go FOX ES GO P3E!! PSE DONATE!!!
Rafael VALDEZ XE2RV On Feb 11, 2012, at 12:50 AM, "i8cvs" <domenico.i8...@tin.it> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" <k9...@comcast.net> > To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:12 AM > Subject: [amsat-bb] ANS-041 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin > >> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE >> ANS-041 Special Bulletin >> >> SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-041.01 >> ANS-041 AMSAT Fox-1 Cubesat Selected for NASA ELaNa Launch Collaboration >> >> AMSAT News Service Bulletin 041.01 >> From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. >> February 10, 2012 >> To All RADIO AMATEURS >> BID: $ANS-041.01 >> >> < snip> >> >> + Return the form sent with the letter to reply with your donation >> for the Fox-1 Project. >> - All donations over $40 will receive a Fox pin. >> - Donations of $120 or more qualify you for AMSAT President's Club > > I invite All to donate the maximum as possible only to AMSAT-DL for > P3E because AMSAT-NA before the launch of OSCAR-10 promised to > the Radio Amateur Community to communicate by satellite much better > than in HF.........Where actually the Amateur Satellite Service have gone ? > > I pull only for AMSAT-DL and P3E because looking to the AMSAT-NA > projects for a HEO at this time, before AO40 died I invested a lot of money > in my HEO satellite station for nothing. > > I trust only on P3E because the AMSAT-DL President DB2OS,Peter > Guelzow on 29 JAN 2012 writes on this AMSAT-BB the following > message: > > "Indeed all money donated to the P3-E project goes into the P3-E project > and we are grateful for all those direct contributions and support in > particular from many individual AMSAT-NA members and indeed many other > hams from around the world. Due to ITAR, unfortunatly AMSAT-NA had to > stop all it's official support (including money, which hurts) for P3-E > several years ago, as you wrote.. For example, we had to re-build and > continue the IHU hardware and software development on our own resources. > The same for the original SDX development, etc. The S/C is still > sitting in our clean room in Marburg and waiting to be finalized. Having > no firm launch date yet, activities slowed down in some areas, while > other activities and groups are highly active and well alive. The > biggest problem is indeed having no firm launch date yet.. this is > frustration for everyone involved. We all put so much volunteer work and > time into it... > > When I read "Forget P3-E, build an MEO" (that's how I read it first) I > was indeed very concerned.. should we really forget all the hard work, > time and money which already went into the project and scrap it??? And > what than? No - I'm not giving up... > > OK, reading the second time I understood that Dave meant we should put > P3-E on VEGA and use it's propulsion to go to MEO... > > Unfortunately things are not so easy.. P3-E was designed to go from GTO > into HEO. For example, all the magnetic attitude control won't work in > MEO anymore, etc.. Thus we were looking for GTO, but would it fit on > VEGA? Indeed, we could try an elliptical orbit with a much lower > apogee, but than we have to carefully study the effects of orbit > resonances which caused AO-13 to burn-up too soon. However, I do > sympathize with the idea and we thought about it in the past, but > discarded the idea for reasons I have almost forgotten now. So, > perhaps we should look again at it.. do some orbit and fuel > calculation, study orbit perturbations and orbit stability again and see > what the impact will be on the S/C design. Any volunteers for that? > > As Nitin wrote, we contacted AMSAT-India to help with contacts to > ISRO, we are in contact with SpaceX and I recently had a personal > letter exchange with the CEO of Arianespace. If a launch possibility > arises, we will be on it. It is not always a matter of money, but also > a matter of compatibility to slip in. Ariane-5 for example is a real > workhorse now with standard launch configurations. Any change on that > costs them a lot of money. If there is an "unusual" configuration were > they have to ask industry for a configuration change, than it might also > be easier for us to slip in.. > That simply means we have to wait for the right moment or finding new > qualification flight.. Ariane 5ME is such opportunity we are actively > working on, but this will not be before 2018. > > In the last several month our work and priority was mostly focused > regarding our funding situation and to improve it. Although most people > still did not understand it, but the P5-A project is one these > opportunity we need. It is well alive and currently heavily discussed > within the highest ranks inside of our government organizations. Apart > from this, we are currently working on another project to fly an hosted > payload on a GEO satellite... A decision is not made yet, but if we get > the opportunity it will provide some neat communication capabilities. > Our previous heritage and P5 will help here too.." > > 73s Peter DB2OS > > Hello Peter.......be sure that all of us with experience from OSCAR-10 > to AO40 are pulling for P3E......go-ahead ! ! > > 73" de > > i8CVS Domenico > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? 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