The AMSAT Fox engineering team has completed the design of the printed circuit boards for the satellite’s “Z” solar panels. Each of these printed circuit boards (PCBs) will accommodate two Boeing/Spectrolab UTJ solar cells. There is a hole in the panel for the lens of the Camera module that is being developed by Virginia Tech. A sample PCB was fabricated and sent to our partner SpaceQuest who approved it for manufacturing into our solar panels.This photo shows the top half of the Fox-1A EU stack turned upside down during testing. It is a good shot of the lead that is added to the bottom of the PSU board for ballast and shielding.Fox-1 prepares to catch some rays. Just pull the RBF pin!Fox-1A PSU system used in the flight unitFox-1A IHU system used in the flight spareGraph of actual downlinked telemetry from the EU shows the battery voltage curve as it was left to run down during testing.
