[Space] Spacebridge micro-satellite

Christie Dudley longobord at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 20:33:40 UTC 2009


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.

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.

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?

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.

Christie
 - who would one day like to go to work on a zeppelin
_______
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the hill is stunning. Where would you choose to live?


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Matt Everingham <matt.everingham at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Space Systems Loral (in Palo Alto) does have the options of purchasing
> real estate on a geosynchronous satellite as a guest payload.  Your
> guest payload still needs to survive launch and the deep space
> environment, but it would probably be cheaper than a free flying
> system.  This might be out of reach as an immediate pursuit but could
> go on a list of future potential projects.
> http://www.ssloral.com/html/payload/hosted_payload.html
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com>
> wrote:
> >> I mentioned that my old school was involved in a project to create a
> >> micro-satellite. Ours were to be launched for us if we won the
> competition:
> >> http://news.mst.edu/2004/03/students_create_tethered_satel.html
> >> I'm thinking, do you think we can actually do our own launch? Is that
> even
> >> possible some day?
> >
> > Hitching a lift on somebody else's commercial launch or paying
> > commercial rates makes it possible now, as I understand it, and
> > somebody on Sunday mentioned that there were amateur groups working on
> > 400,000 ft altitude rockets there, which is technically space as well.
> > Expensive, though.
> >
> >> The Mrs. Sat micro-satellite was small enough to fit in a
> >> micro-wave oven, but I don't know how much she weighed.
> >> There were lot of hurdles to get past (like how to resolve the problem
> of
> >> cosmic waves changing bits in the computer - a big *big* problem that
> far
> >> out in space).. --  A lot of redundancy and checksum'ing  was discussed
> when
> >> I last heard from the team working on this.
> >> I know this is thinking a bit big... but, imagine a
> spacebridge satellite in
> >> geo-spacial orbit above noisebridge :)  Can we do that?
> >
> > That's harder ;) Sub-orbital is probably achievable for Spacebridge.
> > LEO requires a *whole* lot more energy; geosync requires even more
> > energy plus dealing with a much, much nastier environment. Probably
> > not in the next 3 months, I'm thinking.
> >
> > m.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Glen
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