2023-09-03 Subteam Leads Meeting notes

Risks associated with current plan

Tim

• Big up-front monetary investment

  • Riskier for investors

  • More involved funding effort

• A team with little to no experience building satellites

  • No graduate students

  • No faculty

  • Relatively small network

• Failure of a proposal could be quite harsh (team members spend at least a year and a half developing one mission, investors' money is now dormant)

Alternatives

Tim

• https://roserocketry.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SmallSat/pages/91750419
  
  

Discussion

• Balloon could be feasible

  • Need a specific missions

• Smallsat paper competition

  • Would be super cool!