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

[Jordan Trewitt]

If we go to Mercury, we might as well use a dipole drive.

https://youtu.be/3GiN-tWAV_k


-Jordan
KF5COQ

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 13:01 Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Ok so far I have "here is my design for Mercury or Bust fundraiser
> t-shirts" and "what do you have against Venus" and "we could use
> thermocouples for power".
>
> Focus people. There aren't any hams on Mercury. We'd have to get a VE team
> there first.
>
> Spread the word and ask around. I'll put together a conference call within
> the next few weeks.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 10:17 Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>
> 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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