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

[Michelle Thompson]

Ok I'm registered and looking forward!

Nose-grindstone interface confirmed.

-Michelle W5NYV

"Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."


On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

> 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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