----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Trevor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:20:47 PM Subject: New CubeSat to feature D-STAR
New CubeSat to feature D-STAR A new Amateur Radio CubeSat OUFTI-1, built by students at the University of Liege in Belgium is proposing to using the Amateur Radio D-STAR digital-communication protocol. The objective of the nanosatellite project is to provide hands-on experience to students in the design, construction, and control of complete satellite systems that will ultimately serve as the basis for a variety of space experiments. The first satellite in the series is called OUFTI-1: it is a CubeSat, which is a cube with a size of 10x10x10 cm and a weight of at most one kilogram. The key, innovative feature of OUFTI-1 is the use of the D-STAR amateur-radio digital-communication protocol. This means of radio-communication will be used for control and telemetry, and will of course be made available to ham-radio operators worldwide. In the future, it will also be used to control space experiments. OUFTI-1 website http://www.leodium.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/ ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA --------------- Daily Amateur Radio RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/ Email your news items to: editor at southgatearc.org News On Your Website: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/index.htm News On Your PC: http://www.southgatearc.org/rss/newsreader.htm Upload Your News: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/your_news.htm --------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
