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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: O'Neill's GEOSTAR
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 17:55:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 17:55:09 1984
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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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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