05/10/2016
AMSAT[1] has announced that its Fox-1B (RadFxSat - Radiation Effects Satellite)
CubeSat is set for a January 20, 2017, launch. Fox-1B will carry Vanderbilt
University Institute for Space and Defense Electronics radiation experiment,
AMSAT Vice-President Engineering, Jerry Buxton, N0JY, said. It also includes an
Amateur Radio FM transponder (435.250 MHz, 67.0 Hz CTCSS tone, up; 145.960 MHz
down). The latest version of the Fox-1 Operating Guide[2] is available from
AMSAT's Station and Operating Hints page.
Fox-1B will ride on a Delta II launcher along with a NOAA spacecraft. The
satellite will go aloft as part of the NASA Educational Launch of
Nanosatellites (ELaNa[3]) program, which offers free launches to educational
entities and encourages science missions. AMSAT has been developing a family of
CubeSats with Amateur Radio payloads that can support advanced science
experiments, and it has been working with universities on scientific and
educational missions that fit the ELaNa mold.
The Fox series 1-Unit CubeSats allows simple ground stations using hand-held
transceiver and simple dual-band antennas to make contacts. - Thanks to AMSAT
News Service via AMSAT Vice President-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY
[1] http://www.amsat.org
[2] http://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144
[3] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/elana/index.html
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