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Join on-line at: www.amsat.org, e-mail: [email protected], Phone: (888) 322-6728 in the US, or (301) 822-4376 AMSAT Fox-1 Cubesats Launching in 2015
AMSAT pioneered the concept of small satellites in low orbits. AMSAT’s next satellite effort, called Project “Fox”, AMSAT partners with NASA and the ARRL with Amateur consists a series of small CubeSats that will provide FM Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team transponders with a 70 cm uplink with a 2 meter down- to provide amateur radio equipment for the ISS. There linkt that will match the ground performance of previous are multiple amateur radio experiments aboard the ISS
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10605 Concord Street Street Concord 10605 AMSAT Mail this form to ... to form this Mail encompassing both SSTV and the digital ATV experi- A dual-band radio capable of full- ment in the Columbus module. duplex operation with an external antenna is enough to get started: Other Satellite Operation • 435 MHz FM Uplink • 145 MHz FM Downlink In addition to the FM satellites, there are a number of linear amateur satellites that can simultaneously carry You may also consider using one multiple SSB and CW contacts. These satellites carry radio to receive and another radio transponders that are generally 50-100 kHz wide. to transmit for full-duplex operation. • AO-7 Mode A features a 2 meter CW/SSB uplink with a 10 meter CW/SSB downlink.
• Fox-1A will launch on a NASA ELaNa flight during • AO-7 Mode B features a 70 cm CW/SSB uplink the 3rd quarter of 2015 from Vandenberg AFB. with a 2 meter CW/SSB downlink.
• Fox-1B will fly with the Vanderbilt University radia- • FO-29 features a 2 meter CW/SSB uplink with a tion experiments expected in 2016. 70 cm CW/SSB downlink.
• Fox-1C will launch on Spaceflight’s maiden mis- • AO-73 features a 70 cm CW/SSB uplink with a 2 sion of the SHERPA multi-cubesat deployer during meter CW/SSB downlink. the 3rd quarter of 2015.
• Fox-1D is a flight spare for Fox-1C. If not needed as a spare it will become available to launch on
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• Fox-1E is built as a flight spare for Fox-1B but has been included in a student science proposal as part of the November, 2014 CSLI for an ELaNa flight slot. If selected the Fox-1B spare will fly as You can operate as a portable or a fixed station on the linear Fox-1E. satellites with a dual-band radio such as the Yaesu FT-817.