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Today's Topics:
1. Photos of ARISSat-1 loaded into Progress (Daniel Schultz)
2. Rideshare missions to GTO, only $14 million for Eagle, $800K
for 3U Cubesat (Daniel Schultz)
3. Re: Rideshare missions to GTO, only $14 million for Eagle,
$800K for 3U Cubesat (Alexandru Csete)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:24:31 -0500
From: "Daniel Schultz" <n8fgv@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Photos of ARISSat-1 loaded into Progress
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Photos of ARISSat-1 loaded into Progress vehicle:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=35923
Dan Schultz N8FGV
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:33:35 -0500
From: "Daniel Schultz" <n8fgv@xxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Rideshare missions to GTO, only $14 million for
Eagle, $800K for 3U Cubesat
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Spaceflight Services Announces Lunar and GTO Mission Pricing
Prague, CZ - September 30, 2010: Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight) announced
today pricing for small payloads to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and
Low Lunar Orbit (LLO).
Spaceflight, as part of the Rocket City Space Pioneer Google Lunar X-Prize
Team, is responsible for mission integration and providing space
transportation services to Low Lunar Orbit. Spaceflight is providing flight
opportunities for ESPA class spacecraft (spacecraft weighing less than 180 kg)
interested in launch services to GTO and Low Lunar Orbit.
The proposed mission, which is slated for Q4 2013 or Q1 2014, will deploy
three ESPA payloads into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit and two additional
payloads in a Low Lunar Orbit. The mission is also open to smaller spacecraft
looking for a low cost ride to either of these destinations.
Mission pricing for small payloads to GTO begins at $795,000 for a 3U CubeSat
and up to $13,950,000 for a full ESPA spacecraft.
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This is considered a "Low Cost Ride" in the commercial world. This is the free
market value of the launch that we are hoping to get for significantly less.
Wish us luck...
http://www.spaceflightservices.com/MHome.php
http://www.spaceflightservices.com/NewsFSFlunarPR.php
Dan Schultz N8FGV
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:53:07 +0100
From: Alexandru Csete <oz9aec@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Rideshare missions to GTO, only $14 million
for Eagle, $800K for 3U Cubesat
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Daniel Schultz <n8fgv@xxx.xxx> wrote:
> Spaceflight Services Announces Lunar and GTO Mission Pricing
>
> Prague, CZ - September 30, 2010: ?Spaceflight Services (Spaceflight)
announced
> today pricing for small payloads to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and
> Low Lunar Orbit (LLO).
>
> Spaceflight, as part of the Rocket City Space Pioneer Google Lunar X-Prize
> Team, is responsible for mission integration and providing space
> transportation services to Low Lunar Orbit. ?Spaceflight is providing flight
> opportunities for ESPA class spacecraft (spacecraft weighing less than 180
kg)
> interested in launch services to GTO and Low Lunar Orbit.
>
> The proposed mission, which is slated for Q4 2013 or Q1 2014, will deploy
> three ESPA payloads into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit and two additional
> payloads in a Low Lunar Orbit. ?The mission is also open to smaller
spacecraft
> looking for a low cost ride to either of these destinations.
>
> Mission pricing for small payloads to GTO begins at $795,000 for a 3U
CubeSat
> and up to $13,950,000 for a full ESPA spacecraft.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is considered a "Low Cost Ride" in the commercial world. This is the
free
> market value of the launch that we are hoping to get for significantly less.
> Wish us luck...
I certainly wish the best of luck with finding a cheap ride!
Aside from being GTO, I do not consider their offer to be a good deal
at all, since:
(1) Their prices are set so that they can finance their own lunar mission
(2) The price for a whole Falcon 1 is $11M, which will take 1 metric ton to
LEO.
(3) Even for a Falcon 9, the price seems to be less than $10M for
1,600 kg to GTO, see
http://www.spacex.com/falcon9.php#pricing_and_performance
73
Alex OZ9AEC
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