ARLA/CLUSTER: Jovem radioamador britanico de 16 anos colabora no KickSat Sprite satellite da British Interplanetary Society

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 16 year-old UK student to work on Ham Radio Sprite

The Yorkshire Post reports that Luke Bussell will be working on an
amateur radio KickSat Sprite satellite for the British Interplanetary
Society

The Yorkshire Post says that Luke Bussell, who is a Year 11 student at
Bootham School and a member of the school’s astronomy group, got more
than he bargained for when he started doing his research for the
annual Society for the History of Astronomy essay prize.

Choosing to write about the history of unmanned exploration of Mars,
he contacted the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) to quiz their
experts in this fascinating field.

They were so impressed with the depth of Luke’s IT skills that they
have recruited him as a software engineer to work on the amateur radio
KickSat project, which will the see the design, building and testing
of very small spacecraft called Sprites.

Luke, who lives near York, said: “I did not realise that I would be
working on something that might be going into space.”

“It’s very exciting.”

“It’s good as I am only sixteen. I think that my family are quite
proud,” he added.

Read the full Yorkshire Post story at
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/general-news/video-star-pupil-is-hired-for-space-project-1-5605332

The KickSat Sprites from both the BIS and London Hackspace are planned
to launch, with 198 others, on the ELaNa 5 / CRS 3 mission in mid to
late Summer 2013.

British Interplanetary Society KickSat Sprite programming and planning day
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/03/25/bis-kicksat-programming-planning-day/

KickSat Sprite Technical Summary
http://www.bis-space.com/2013/03/09/9301/kicksat-technical-summary

KickSat to deploy 200 Sprite satellites
http://amsat-uk.org/2012/09/21/kicksat-to-deploy-200-sprite-satellites/