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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1869)	7/13/1998 3:09:00 PM
From: John B. Jensen	of 2394

All, Noticed this on spacer.com: spacer.com Basically the idea is that the bird keeps the messages on board until it crosses the groundstation a little later. This seems like interesting competition for some of OrbComms market. Clearly it will not work for tracking of vehicles etc., but for utility monitoring it would work just fine. Does anybody have an opinion of the tradeoffs involved: + You need fewer groundstations - Increased satellite complexity - Increased satellite power consumption (?) - Increased satellite cost (How much is a couple of gigs worth of rad-hardened ram anyway?) - Increased message latency. -- John

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