AMSAT's newest amateur
satellite - Fox-1B (also known as RadFxSat) - was launched on November 18 from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,
and successfully entered orbit and started transmitting. It has been designated
as AMSAT-OSCAR 91.
According to the AMSAT
News Service, the cubesat carries a scientific package - developed by Vanderbilt University - designed to measure the
effects of space radiation on electronic components. It also includes an
amateur FM transponder with an uplink on 70 centimeters and a downlink on 2
meters.