Elon in Adelaide, page-14

Funny about that, JackA – I had a sneaky feeling I was running the gauntlet with the moderators on that post as it lacked any substantial linking to SAS.

I posted in a bid to fill a possible info. gap and add investor background. Musk has always been in the same field as a nano-sat ‘contender’ or indeed a possible SAS ‘investor’ of sorts.

It appears someone had an issue with my post and reported me or the moderator saw no value in my information – whatever, hence the “Off-topic” mod.

If there was any talk of a deal being done between Musk and SAS, I certainly didn’t get even a slight whiff of it. Suffice to say – “no deal” IMO. From my interpretation of Musk, he is much more inclined to do his own thing through his own means, than go for a JV.

This is a video I shot during the Musk presentation – simply amazing how they land a rocket back on the launch pad following a mission. For other videos, just Google "Musk 68th IAC" and you'll get at least three links showing most of his presentation slides and videos.

Stocklog – In your post #27580731, you referred to ‘differential drag’ as a means of adjusting the spacial relationships between the 3 x nano-sats. Essentially this involves making minute changes to the orbiting altitude and the attitude (angle) of the nano-sats. This video clip demonstrates this process of differential drag put into practice -
Via Maya’s laptop, connecting to GOMspace in Denmark, she is able to monitor and set in-play, the changes needed to get our nan-sats into a ‘commercially’ viable overlapping formation. Here is Maya on her laptop checking out ‘her babies’.


You are correct about the possibility of shortly testing “Earth to RED to Green to Earth” communication without the need for BLUE to be involved. This was the initial school of thought BEFORE Sat-Space Africa offered to buy access for their customers. Now, to be a ‘commercial’ offering, all three nano-sats need to overlap, transferring data directly through each other.

Anush – Meir made a comment that the “S” band capacity they have secured is more than enough to handle the data flow of the completed constellation. This info on “S” Band from Wiki -

The S band is a designation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for a part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum covering frequencies from 2 to 4 gigahertz (GHz). Thus it crosses the conventional boundary between the UHF and SHF bands at 3.0 GHz. The S band is used by weather radar, surface ship radar, and some communications satellites, especially those used by NASA to communicate with the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. The 10 cm radar short-band ranges roughly from 1.55 to 5.2 GHz. The S band also contains the 2.4–2.483 GHz ISM band, widely used for low power unlicensed microwave devices such as cordless phones, wireless headphones (Bluetooth), wireless networking (WiFi), garage door openers, keyless vehicle locks, baby monitors as well as for medical diathermy machines and microwave ovens (typically at 2.495GHz).

As I mentioned before , but may not have been clear, during the week I did not get any hint whatsoever of any possible nano-sat funding deal in any way shape or form involving Virgin Orbit, SpaceX, RocketLab or other……. but that is not to say there isn’t one on the table somewhere!

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