ARLA/CLUSTER: Fox-1 Sept launch and 5-10 GHz GEO Sat

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Fox-1 Sept launch and 5-10 GHz GEO Sat

ARRL Publications Manager and QST Editor *Steve Ford, WB8IMY*, reports on
Amateur Satellite news from the Dayton Hamvention

The ARRL website says:

The launch of the Fox-1 CubeSat has been delayed until late September.

AMSAT Vice President-Engineering *Jerry Buxton, N0JY*, said that its
planned geosynchronous satellite will offer uplinks on 5 GHz and downlinks
on 10 GHz.

Buxton explained that the geosynchronous footprint will not be absolutely
fixed; some variation may require some up/down movement of the user's dish
at certain times — although not continuously. He said AMSAT is working on
this issue in terms of what to recommend for ground stations, but that even
in the worst case, a user with a fixed antenna would still be able to enjoy
several hours of access each day.

The transponder for the new satellite will be software defined and capable
of supporting many different modes, including analog SSB.

AMSAT announced in late April that, if all goes according to plan, an
Amateur Radio payload will go into space on a geosynchronous satellite
that’s planned for launch in 2017. The satellite’s potential footprint
could extend over the US from the Mid-Pacific to Africa. AMSAT has accepted
the opportunity to be a “hosted payload� on a spacecraft that Millennium
Space Systems (MSS) of El Segundo, California, is under contract to design,
launch, and operate for the US government. The Amateur Radio payload must
be delivered for testing and integration by next spring.

Source
http://www.arrl.org/news/dayton-hamvention-2015-day-1-big-crowd-some-rain-satellite-news

AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/
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