On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 07:06:09AM -0700, Razer wrote:
Why not?
In 1988 or so I took an Epson HX-20 cp/m laptop and put it on the intertubz, and packet radio, using a basic 1.1 program I wrote myself that also would print out (on demand) a log or screen info to it's cash register tape printer while storing the info and the program on a microcassete and it ran at a whopping 1200baud, which was a fast as the buss and 4K of ram was ever going to go. That was when 9600 baud was typical and 14.4 was blazing fast.
I made a a packet contact bouncing of the digipeater on the Mir space station with a friend about 50 miles away using a 2 el quad, that computer, and a 5 watt Alinco handie-talkie on 2m
Wow, cool!
Enough brag. My point is, if you wanted to build an orbital telescope you could, with the kind of collaboration it took to build the 220mhz California digipeater backbone perhaps, but make some like minded friends and anything is possible. Even a telescope sat launch from Guyana...
Possibly, but it would be a hard endeavor, wouldn't it? :)
AAMOF Orbital sats are EZ! It's the geostationary ones that you'll have talk to the feds about, because they think they own that space, in space.
Same here in germany. But it's even better here: while they claim to have jurisdiction above us, they say the constitution doesn't apply there, because it only applies on the ground (nobody really understands this argument). So, shoot a drone or launch your own rocket and go to jail while the very same people spy on everyone from above.
Ps. Obviously, I don't hate science... as someone mentioned earlier
That someone would be me, sorry! Tom.