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From: al@ames-lm.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: USENET satellite
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Date: Thu, 5-Jul-84 21:48:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  5 21:48:27 1984
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Any thoughts on the feasibility of a USENET satellite?  The satellite would
in some fairly low orbit and act as a USENENT node with a low
power omni antenna.  It would pick up USENET files from sites near the orbital
path, analyse the destinations and drop the mail off when it passed over the
appropriate site.  There might be long delays for a high inclination
satellite, but an equitorial satellite in low orbit (4-500 miles?) could
deliver mail rapidly to equitorial nations.  There's also the possiblity of
multiple satellites in various orbit that send to each other as they pass 
nearby.  Perhaps AMSAT could get into something like this, I'd think that
power requirements should be quite low leading to a relatively cheap
satellite.

			From the half baked ideas of

					Al Globus