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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Phil</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yea, Bernard does not understand that when we approach someone who has<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">put $100,000,000 into a bird, and ask if we can bolt a package to it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>YOU WANT TO DO WHAT TO MY $100,000,000 BIRD?</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>You want to use my precious power and I have to just hope your piece of junk</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>doesn't short out and take my power system with it?</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Do you know how much extra maneuvering fuel I'll have to burn to haul</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>your stuff around? Your are shorting my service life!<br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>And who pays for my new calculations for the center of mass and the</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>new calculations for the launch vehicle mass distribution ?<br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>What, you want to stress my thermal management system?</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Where are your outgassing numbers?</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>(XM slowly lost a bird when something inside outgassed and fogged up the solar cells)</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>And of course what us to insure there bird and launch if a failure is our fault and</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>cover loss revenue.<br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>And I haven't even started on all the issues the owner of the launch vehicle will bring up.</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Bernard, the devil is in the details. <br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b></b><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, February 13, 2020, 9:56:26 PM CST, Phil Karn via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On 2/12/20 18:48, KC9SGV wrote:<div class="ydp1916aa6cyqt1819769767" id="ydp1916aa6cyqtfd02372"><br clear="none">> So, specialized GEO or HEO satellites, I agree.<br clear="none">> But let's get the first one up pronto.<br clear="none">> MELCO built the QO-100 transponder on Es'Hail 2.<br clear="none">> Let them build one for us too and fly it on their next sat over the Americas.<br clear="none">> The money comes from a beneficiary or ads in the passband edges like on YouTube...<br clear="none">> Later, we push for more advanced transponders on future satellites.<br clear="none">> Bernard,<br clear="none">> KC9SGV</div><br clear="none">><br clear="none">Can you name any rich Arab oil states in the western hemisphere visible<br clear="none">from, say, 90W?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Phil<div class="ydp1916aa6cyqt1819769767" id="ydp1916aa6cyqtfd49229"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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