[Ground-station] Phase 5? Invite to conference, open source payload

[Bruce Perens]

I registered, and submitted my talk on International Open Source
Collaboration Without ITAR and EAR Issues. It sounds like we only have to
pay for dinner?

I have no problem with Mercury and am eager to see how you solve the solar
noise problem so that our receivers can be nice and quiet. Keep your nose
to the grindstone :-)

We have some real stars in this community, and I am ready to write grant
proposals, but we need a principal investigator for our satellite program.

    Thanks

    Bruce



On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <
ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Steve Conklin asked Barbara Cohen about what our next steps for Phase 4
> Space should be, and she recommended taking a serious look at attending
> this meeting:
>
> https://cubesats.gsfc.nasa.gov/symposium.html
>
> We have an opportunity consider planetary or Phase 5 work. We are being
> encouraged to think about it and come up with proposals.
>
> I've talked with a lot of people over the past week from a wide variety of
> organizations, all of whom have been positive and encouraging. We  are
> negotiating funding sources that will make a payload possible, and we
> received an offer for radiation testing. More progress on this has happened
> in the past week than in the prior six months. Let's try and capitalize on
> this.
>
> I want to support and enable an open source payload that uses our air
> interface (FDM up, DVB-S2/X + GSE down).
>
> We won't be the first open source satellite in orbit. That honor belongs
> to UPSat, from Libre Space.
>
> I am not interested in seeing us at LEO. No we don't have to do something
> interplanetary. The baseline to date has been 6U GEO. Several existing
> designs have provided some framework, and there's discussion of a drawing.
>
> What do we need to do now? We need additional people. We have a small
> payload team right now. We do need more.
>
> We need someone that is not me to lead it. It is a big job, but not
> impossible. I have asked some wonderful people that have recently become
> free, and am interested in recommendations from all of you.
>
> If I lead it, we build a spacecraft to go do amateur radio around Mercury.
> See, you want someone a bit less gonzo. I will provide support to the best
> of my abilities, but someone not pied pipering off to Mercury has to be out
> there. :+)
>
> Questions? Comments? As always, the floor is yours.
>
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