Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: O'Neill's GEOSTAR Message-ID: <3505@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 17:55:09 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3505 Posted: Wed Feb 1 17:55:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Feb-84 17:55:09 EST References: <16100@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 Another advantage of Geostar is that a substantial fraction of the proceeds from it go to the Space Studies Institute. If Geostar makes it big, this could pump a lot of money into private space development. The way I heard it, the obstacles to Geostar are not really a question of the government banning it. They're just the usual problems of having only so many orbital slots and so many frequencies available, and lots of different proposals for how to use them. Geostar is in competition for orbital slots and frequency assignments with various other things, some of which have lots of backing. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry