The AMSAT Engineering and Operations teams have been hard at work testing the various modes and experiments aboard AO-92 since its launch on January 12th. Since the last update, testing has concentrated on the University of Iowa’s High Energy CubeSat Radiation Instrument (HERCI) experiment and the AMSAT L-Band Downshifter. The HERCI experiment was activated for … Read more
AMSAT Fox-1 Project Status AMSAT GOLF Project Status In October 2017, AMSAT announced the GOLF, or “Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint,” program. NASA announced the selection of the first two satellites in the series, GOLF-TEE and GOLF-1, for participation in the CubeSat Launch Initiaitve on March 2, 2018. Both will be 3U CubeSats in Low Earth … Read more
Right on schedule at 03:59 UTC on January 12, 2018, the solid-fueled first stage and ground-lit strap on boosters of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its XL configuration (PSLV-XL) ignited and hurtled AMSAT’s Fox-1D CubeSat along with 30 other satellites onboard the PSLV-C40 mission towards a sun-synchronous orbit. The … Read more
Introduction AMSAT’s next Fox-1 satellite, Fox-1D, is scheduled for launch on January 12, 2018 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Fox-1D will launch as part of the PSLV-C40 mission on board a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with a Cartosat-2 series imaging satellite for the Indian government and 29 other payloads. ISRO’s mission brochure … Read more