Hi, I watched Amir's keynote address at Meshcon on Spec 5's YouTube channel and I was really interested to hear his idea of launching a LEO satellite for the mesh. He mentioned that it would cost about $250,000. Has the company considered crowdfunding it? I'm sure a lot of people in the Meshtastic community would be enthusiastic about the idea.
Thank you, Michael. We are working on this right now. We are currently reaching out to put together a panel of radio, satcomm and space ops experts on our Space Advisory Board. We have also reached out to a couple of launch providers for details around costs, schedules and so on. As soon as we have enough information to credibly approach the community, we'll definitely engage. This will be a good thing for everyone!
You should try to get someone from AMSAT on your Advisory Board. They might have some folks with collateral meshtastic interest that already have experience launching ham satellites. I'm very excited to see how this goes!
