Excellent! Just made my financial support for Fox!
Stefan, VE4NSA Go CubeSat Go On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Stephen E. Belter <[email protected]> wrote: > Stefan - Alan is right, ITAR is a severe barrier to most cooperative > projects. :-( > > Nonetheless, it was mentioned several times at the 2010 AMSAT-NA Symposium > and other places that we want to place our RF package on university CubeSats. > For example, these quotes from the AMSAT-Fox news on the website: "AMSAT's > flexible, CubeSat compatible software defined transponder is a new approach > providing a robust and reliable radio link for future CubeSats allowing > university teams to concentrate on their scientific objectives. Future > CubeSat missions using AMSAT Fox technology will have an amateur space > service capable transponder aboard which may continue to be utilized by radio > amateurs once the primary scientific objectives of the University research > flights have been met." > > The development and launch of ARISSat-1 has been a significant step towards > our next generation satellite platform. Fox will take the lessons learned > from ARISSat-1 and will repackage the hardware to fit the CubeSat form > factor. To quote Tony AA2TX and AMSAT-NA VP of Engineering "When the Fox > project is completed, we will have something concrete to offer." > > So that's the plan on the CubeSat front. The AMSAT-NA board also continues > to look for MEO and HEO opportunities, and for a possible ARISSat-2. > > 73, Steve N9IP > -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan P. Biddle [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:59 AM > To: Stephen E. Belter > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: New Sats > > Stefan, > > As Steve says, providing turnkey communications is of significant interest, > both to AMSAT and potential users. Of course, one always has to be aware, > and wary of ITAR issues for even such relatively mundane equipment. > > Alan > WA4SCA > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Stephen E. Belter > Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:49 AM > To: Stefan Wagener > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Sats > > Stefan, > > I believe that AMSAT-NA plans to offer semi-complete communications packages > to the Cubesat community. That is one of the expected outcomes of the Fox > project, which is AMSAT-NA's first cubesat. > > 73, Steve N9IP > -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Stefan Wagener > Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:42 AM > To: Kevin Deane > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: New Sats > > Yes, > > Kevin, point made. The only way we can change that is by working closely > together with these projects and having a tangible influence in their > hardware and software development. Out of curiosity, I always wondered why > AMSAT would not offer semi complete communication packages, (Data, Rx, Tx) > for cubesats for sale, which automatically would have a set of interesting > protocols, tools and options embedded. > Using RF components from DataTech or Radiometrix would potentially simplify > the task. The end user could spend more time and effort focusing on > experiments and other additional payload. > Don't know if AMSAT ever did a market analysis for this. However, it might > something to consider as a proof of concept for FOX or other following > cubesats by AMSAT. > > Stefan, VE4NSA > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Kevin Deane <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> With all these new sats that are not voice, I was thinking people >> would > probly be more interested and get more invovled if there were something more > than just decoding the telemetry like SEEDS II offers Qsl cards and secret > words, stuff like that. >> >> Just thought I would throw that out there see what people think. :) >> >> Kevin >> KF7MYK >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? 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