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Kent, you're low balling the number by a factor of around 3.5 ! Inflation is allot higher in GEO :)<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:22:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> KC9SGV <kc9sgv@gmail.com>; Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>; Phil Karn <karn@ka9q.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ground-station] Experimental Channels</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Yea, Bernard does not understand that when we approach someone who has<br>
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<div dir="ltr">put $100,000,000 into a bird, and ask if we can bolt a package to it.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>YOU WANT TO DO WHAT TO MY $100,000,000 BIRD?</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>You want to use my precious power and I have to just hope your piece of junk</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>Do you know how much extra maneuvering fuel I'll have to burn to haul</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>And who pays for my new calculations for the center of mass and the</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>What, you want to stress my thermal management system?</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>Where are your outgassing numbers?</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>And of course what us to insure there bird and launch if a failure is our fault and</b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>And I haven't even started on all the issues the owner of the launch vehicle will bring up.</b></div>
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<div>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 dir="ltr">On 2/12/20 18:48, KC9SGV wrote:
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> 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">
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