Go to this page and look up "microsats" $30k is about
what it cost to put a microsat on LEO orbit. AMSAT had
one launch that put I think it was 4 or five of the buggers
on orbit back a few years ago.
www.amsat.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronan Heffernan [mailto:ronan@iotcorp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 06:11 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] A New Project!!!!
>
>
> Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > Ronan, seriously I think it costs more than $30k/lb. for
> lofting? They
> > have to position it as well, true? When you said Zaurus, I
> thought of a
> > hardened case and RF equipment. It would weigh hmmm five
> pounds or so?
> >
>
> I think that NASA charges commercial companies $30K/lb for LEO.
> Geosynchronous should be much more expensive.
>
> > Now how many people would contribute money to have that
> thing lofted to
> > have a FREE network? I, for one, would chip in $100 and
> I'M BROKE!
> > Sooo worst case $200000/100 = 2,000 people
> >
>
> If the satellites are in LEO, you have better latency times, but you
> need some very exotic motor-driven antenna mounts to do
> communications.
>
> > Better yet, why don't we unwind some old transformers and
> build us a
> > rail gun? No fuel!
> >
>
> Florida is close enough to the equator to make a rail gun
> launch, but it
> is much too close to sea level.
>
> --ronan
>
>
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