Paul Stoetzer

New AMSAT Facebook Group

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The “AMSAT North America” group that has existed for over a decade no longer serves as the official Facebook group of AMSAT. Please join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/AMSATNA/

AMSAT has petitioned Facebook to remove the logo and name from the “AMSAT North America” group’s pages in accordance with Facebook’s Intellectual Property Policy.

AMSAT officers and board members will no longer hold any role in the group. Facebook’s policy is the creator of the group, owns the group resources.

For the most current information and discussion about AMSAT’s activities, please join us on our new group. This new group has been placed under corporate ownership under legal advice and to insure the latest information and discussion from AMSAT.

CAMSAT Submits Frequency Coordination Requests for 3 Satellites Scheduled for September 2018 Launch

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CAMSAT, the Chinese Amateur Satellite Group, has submitted requests to the IARU for frequency coordination for three new amateur satellites.

CAS-5A is a 6U CubeSat with several amateur transponders: A 30 kHz wide 15 meter to 10 meter linear transponder, a 15 kHz wide 15 meter to 70 cm linear transponder, a 30 kHz wide 2 meter to 70 cm linear transponder, and a 2 meter to 70 cm FM repeater. The satellite also has 10 meter and 70 cm CW beacons as well as a 70 cm 4.8k / 9.6k GMSK telemetry downlink.

CAS-5B is a 90 mm L x 80 mm W x 50 mm H 0.5 kg femtosatellite with a 70 cm CW beacon.

CAS-5A and CAS-5B are scheduled to launch in September from Jiuguan Launch Center into a 539 km x 533 km 97.5 degree inclination orbit.

CAS-6 is an amateur payload aboard a 50 kg microsatellite with a 20 kHz wide 70 cm to 2 m linear transponder, a VHF CW beacon, and a 4.8k GMSK telemetry downlink. Launch is planned from a Sea Launch Pad from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in September into a 579 km x 579 km 45 degree inclination orbit.

CAS-5A coordination request: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=619

CAS-5B coordination request: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=620

CAS-6 coordination request: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=622

 

Get on the Satellites for Field Day!

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Field Day is right around the corner!

Posted below with the ARRL’s permission is an article entitled “Get on the Satellites for ARRL Field Day” written by Sean Kutzko, KX9X, and published in the June 2018 issue of QST.

As a reminder, AMSAT runs a Field Day event concurrently with ARRL Field Day. For more information, please see https://www.amsat.org/field-day/.

Get on the Satellites for ARRL Field Day

 

Videos of RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) Flight Model Testing

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AMSAT Vice President Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, has been streaming live videos of testing of the flight model of RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) from Fox Labs in Granbury, TX.

You can view archived videos at https://www.twitch.tv/n0jy/videos/all.

Follow @N0JY on Twitter for announcements of future live streams of RadFxSat-2 flight model testing. You can also follow N0JY on Twitch for notifications of live streams.

RadFxSat-2 is scheduled to launch later this year on the ELaNa XX mission aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne air-launch-to-orbit system. The satellite carries a 30 kHz wide V/u linear transponder and radiation experiments for Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Space and Defense Electronics.