Well, a number of people start off with suggesting launch opportunities we could piggy back off of and. using existing tech to launch our payload. The question that really needs to be considered is what do we want to accomplish. Do we want to make a payload? Do we want to mess around with our own way to get it there.<div>
<br></div><div>I haven't really heard any discussions on things we're particularly excited about for the payload (although there does seem to be some interest in putting together _something_). I've heard a lot of discussion on interesting things we could do with balloons and launch stuff.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yes, it'll probably be a lot more expensive to mess around with getting our own stuff to the edge of space, but it seems to me that we should do what we have a clear interest in rather than what would be cheapest or easiest, no?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I myself am interested in hight altitude power generation. It seems to me there's a lot of energy up there and if we're going to keep anything aloft for any period of time, we'd need more power than what we can load it up with at launch. Actually having power available would also facilitate extremely useful things like navigation systems.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Christie</div><div> - who would one day like to go to work on a zeppelin<br clear="all">_______<br>Getting to the bottom of the hill is convenient. The view from the top of the hill is stunning. Where would you choose to live?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Matt Everingham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.everingham@gmail.com">matt.everingham@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Space Systems Loral (in Palo Alto) does have the options of purchasing<br>
real estate on a geosynchronous satellite as a guest payload. Your<br>
guest payload still needs to survive launch and the deep space<br>
environment, but it would probably be cheaper than a free flying<br>
system. This might be out of reach as an immediate pursuit but could<br>
go on a list of future potential projects.<br>
<a href="http://www.ssloral.com/html/payload/hosted_payload.html" target="_blank">http://www.ssloral.com/html/payload/hosted_payload.html</a><br>
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <<a href="mailto:dichro@rcpt.to">dichro@rcpt.to</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Glen Jarvis <<a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com">glen@glenjarvis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I mentioned that my old school was involved in a project to create a<br>
>> micro-satellite. Ours were to be launched for us if we won the competition:<br>
>> <a href="http://news.mst.edu/2004/03/students_create_tethered_satel.html" target="_blank">http://news.mst.edu/2004/03/students_create_tethered_satel.html</a><br>
>> I'm thinking, do you think we can actually do our own launch? Is that even<br>
>> possible some day?<br>
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> Hitching a lift on somebody else's commercial launch or paying<br>
> commercial rates makes it possible now, as I understand it, and<br>
> somebody on Sunday mentioned that there were amateur groups working on<br>
> 400,000 ft altitude rockets there, which is technically space as well.<br>
> Expensive, though.<br>
><br>
>> The Mrs. Sat micro-satellite was small enough to fit in a<br>
>> micro-wave oven, but I don't know how much she weighed.<br>
>> There were lot of hurdles to get past (like how to resolve the problem of<br>
>> cosmic waves changing bits in the computer - a big *big* problem that far<br>
>> out in space).. -- A lot of redundancy and checksum'ing was discussed when<br>
>> I last heard from the team working on this.<br>
>> I know this is thinking a bit big... but, imagine a spacebridge satellite in<br>
>> geo-spacial orbit above noisebridge :) Can we do that?<br>
><br>
> That's harder ;) Sub-orbital is probably achievable for Spacebridge.<br>
> LEO requires a *whole* lot more energy; geosync requires even more<br>
> energy plus dealing with a much, much nastier environment. Probably<br>
> not in the next 3 months, I'm thinking.<br>
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