What about all the talk of just putting a WebSDR into orbit, with a downlink to the internet?
Too uncontrollable. Especially in a disaster situation where it actually needs to work.
Go listen to a weather net sometime and pay attention to all the fair weather reports, squirreling, kerchunking of the repeater and all the rest of the nonsense that goes on and bear in mind that it's only one repeater that has coverage of maybe two or three counties. Now expand the coverage to 1/4 to 1/3 of North America and thing about the amount of crap that it's going to be hearing. Sure you will be acting a a control operator and can turn it off when the problems arise. But the problems will arise when you actually need it to be turned on. Again, go listen to the same repeater on any day that there is NO weather alert and no weather net going on and the repeater will no doubt be quiet.
If you are wanting to put a standard satellite repeater into geo-sync orbit over North America, then just do that and allow emcomm to use it like they would be allowed to use any terrestrial repeater during an emergency. Tell your investors what ever makes you happy, but the truth is that the minute you allow uncontrolled access to a repeater that is touted as being for EMCOMM only and is disabled most of the time, it's gonna turn into a free for all the minute that you enable it for emergency traffic.