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AMSAT pioneered the concept of small satellites in low orbits. AMSAT’s Project Fox consists of a series AMSAT partners with NASA, the ARRL, and the Amateur of CubeSats that have FM transponders with a 70 cm Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team uplink and a 2 meter downlink, and that will match the to provide amateur radio equipment for the ISS. There
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ground performance of previous FM satellites. ... to form this Mail involving voice, digital, and visual amateur radio modes 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: Be a part of Amateur Radio’s • 435 MHz FM Uplink exciting future in space! • 145 MHz FM Downlink 2018 and beyond promises to bring more satellites, sky You may also consider using one high technology and educational outreach ... radio to receive and another radio to transmit for full-duplex operation. • Introducing AMSAT-Golf - Greater Orbit, Larg- AMSAT operates a fleet of five amateur radio cubesats er Footprint ... 3U cubesats with deployable solar cells, attitude determination and control, earth im- on-orbit or ready for launch ... aging, university experiments, SDR transponder. • Fox-1A (AO-85) was launched on a NASA ELaNa • AMSAT microwave groundstation to support 5 flight on 8 October 2015, and is currently operational. GHz uplink and 10 GHz downlink for our future This satellite has a UHF uplink and a VHF downlink. High Earth Orbit and Geosynchronous flights. • RadFxSat (Fox-1B/AO-91) was launched on 18 • Support ARISS to deploy the new Kenwood ra- November 2017 with an FM transponder and the dios and Multi-voltage Power Supply on the ISS. Vanderbilt University radiation experiments and is operational. • Educational outreach and STEM involvement with students at the high-school and university level. • Fox-1Cliff planned to launch Summer 2018 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg AFB, CA. UHF and L-band uplinks with the VHF downlink plus a camera experiment. Required Postage • Fox-1D (AO-92) launched in January, 2018 aboard a PSLV flight from India and is operational. Fox-1D orbits an FM transponder with UHF and L-band up- links and a VHF downlink plus a camera experiment.
• RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) will launch no earlier than 2nd quarter 2018 aboard a Virgin Galactic Laun- cherOne flight. It will carry a 30 kHz wide mode V/U linear transponder. It will also have a 1200 bps You can operate as a portable or a fixed station on the linear BPSK telemetry beacon. satellites with a dual-band radio such as the Yaesu FT-817.