AMSAT’s Fox-1E Likely to Get a Lift from NASA
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Courtesy AMSAT.org |
NASA
has accepted the Fox-1E cubesat – a joint effort between AMSAT and Vanderbilt
University – to be part of its CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) program. The
satellite, also known as RadFxSat-2, will carry a radiation effects experiment
developed by Vanderbilt as well as a 30-kHz wide amateur radio linear
transponder with an uplink on 2 meters and a downlink on 70 centimeters. This
will be in place of the FM repeater carried by most amateur cubesats. The
project received a #1 priority out of 20 accepted proposals and has been
offered a launch date by NASA. This is the second collaboration between AMSAT
and Vanderbilt. The first – RadFxSat/Fox-1B – is also part of NASA’s CSLI program and is scheduled for launch next
January.