brainwagon

I read this today:

AMSAT is excited to announce that we have accepted an opportunity to participate in a potential rideshare as a hosted payload on a geostationary satellite planned for launch in 2017. An amateur radio payload, operating in the Amateur Satellite Service, will fly on a spacecraft which Millennium Space Systems (MSS) of El Segundo, CA is contracted to design, launch, and operate for the US government based on their Aquila M8 Series Satellite Structure.

Complete Press Release Here

This would be very exciting. The only satellites I’ve worked have really worked with any regularity have been the FM satellites in low earth orbit. I’d love to have an opportunity to develop a station to work a bird in geostationary orbit. I’ll be watching this closely, and probably kicking in some donations to AMSAT-NA to grease the skids.