[Ground-station] Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop - poster session report + two brief presentation notes

[Bruce Perens]

I am sure that every civil servant says the prayer: May the Lord bless and
keep the president.
Far away from us.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 12:27 AM Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> On 9/6/18 09:43, Ground-Station wrote:
>
> > The contrast between the program leads from NASA and the industry people
> > that want to sell busses was pretty stark in several respects. The most
> > obvious was diversity. The trade show wing of the workshop was all white
> > and male and from mid-tier aerospace industry companies. There was at
> > least one start-up there, but most had been doing this for a while and
> > have decided to solidly move into CubeSat territory due to the increase
> > in market.
>
> That's been my observation too. Also, nearly all of the commercially
> available parts and subsystems, while much cheaper than traditional
> aerospace stuff, is still tens of dB$ more than it should really cost,
> or that we can afford as hams. So there's still plenty of room for us to
> innovate good but truly cheap spacecraft bus parts. That's the kind of
> thing that attracted me to AMSAT in the first place.
>
> >The NASA and University speakers were very diverse in age,
> > gender, and race. The science was the focus, but each and every one of
> > them talked up the commercialization of space as if it was a net
> positive.
>
> Yup, because it's a standard talking point they feel compelled to parrot
> if they want to attract funding for their projects. My own take on many
> of the university projects is that their main result will not be some
> operational satellite system, space science discovery or even some new
> and novel piece of hardware or software. It'll be the education of the
> students involved. And for me, that's reason enough. Especially for a
> diverse group.
>
> > Force" goodies. It's completely unclear to NASA people that were there
> > what the policies will be, how it will affect things, whether or not any
> > number of programs will continue, or whether or not the Space Force will
> > be a real thing.
>
> I bet that if you bought any of them a beer, they'd eventually confess
> that they see Trump's "Space Force" as a total joke that it's bound to
> blow over in a matter of months if not weeks when Trump loses interest
> in it. But they're deathly afraid to say so in public.
>
> Phil
>
>
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