From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 22 18:41:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0041637B554 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA41527 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:41:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200006230141.VAA41527@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Hardware in space? References: <002301bfdc6e$a99b3e20$0700000a@barney.expi> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:24:02 EDT." <002301bfdc6e$a99b3e20$0700000a@barney.expi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:41:26 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org All this speculation is pretty interesting, but at some point someone who has experience building stuff that gets shot into space will need to get involved. Thermal design of the payload is probably one of the simpler problems that need to be addressed. Probably the power budget isn't unlimited, the payload is gonna get shook pretty good at a variety of frequencies and amplitudes. All of us software folks trying to apply dimly recalled high school physics isn't going to get very far. I would suggest that the original poster might consider getting involved with organizations that have built space-borne payloads, rather than reinventing a flat tire and learning it all the hard way. Try poking around the AMSAT web site (http://www.amsat.org) for some ideas and pointers. There are the folks (in the US anyway) that build amateur radio communications satellites, and have been at it for a few decades now. louie wa3ymh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message