[Ground-station] HEO proposal for JAMSAT - first meetup 1 August 2022

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings all,

We have an opportunity to present a HEO proposal to JAMSAT.

They want a HEO. They need more engineers and volunteers. We have core
technology and technical volunteers.

Attached is a presentation from Jan King from the 2014 AMSAT-NA Symposium.
There was a workshop and presentation. I know several people on the list
were there.

I'd like  to take this proposal (attached) and *update it for 2022*. This
will be an open source project, open to international collaboration, and
everyone that can follow our code of conduct and comply with our
participant and developer guidelines is welcome to join.

We'll have a weekly "office hours" meetup. Day and time will most likely be
Monday evening US Pacific starting out. First meetup will be this coming
Monday, 1 August 2022.

We have a $50,000 pledge for funding (if the proposal is accepted). This is
a good start! There are many other opportunities for fundraising once we
have a viable proposal. Fundraising will be challenging but not impossible.

There is a lot of work that needs to be done before presenting to JAMSAT,
but we're well within reach and we are capable of delivering a very good
result. P4DX and other project work will be included.

If you are not familiar with JAMSAT, they are the national Japanese amateur
satellite organization. We have presented our work at their Symposium, they
have been gracious and generous hosts, they support open source, and have a
friendly and active membership. The JAMSAT newsletter is outstanding.

We are weakest on thermal design, but we did get some familiarity with
basic modeling using Thermal Desktop.

We are second-weakest on propulsion, with our focus being on
synchronization techniques for electric motors. You may have noticed our
fundraiser to build an application for the patent we have been allowed to
use/exploit from GWU.

We are strongest on digital communications.

I expect we will leverage a lot of workflow know-how from Libre Space
Foundation and others.

We need a name for the project and a logo! If you're inspired to get
creative, please share your ideas.

Thank you,
-Michelle Thompson
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