ARLA/CLUSTER: AMSAT anuncia próximos lançamentos de satelites da série Fox

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

AMSAT Fox series launch schedule update

The launches of AMSAT satellites Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D have been
rebooked from the original Spaceflight Formosat-5/Sherpa mission
aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on to two separate new launches.

Fox-1D will now ride to orbit on an Indian PSLV vehicle scheduled to
launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India in late
2017.

Fox-1Cliff will launch on Spaceflight’s SSO-A dedicated rideshare
mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 scheduled to launch from Vandenberg
Air Force Base in California in late 2017 or early 2018.

These moves will serve to expedite the launch of these two satellites,
both of which carry an amateur radio U/v FM repeater and an
xperimental L/v FM repeater. The satellites also carry scientific
experiments, from university partners Penn State, Vanderbilt
University ISDE, Virginia Tech, and University of Iowa.

In addition to the launch of Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D, AMSAT is awaiting
the launches of RadFxSat and RadFxSat-2. RadFxSat is currently
manifested for launch on August 29, 2017 aboard the ELaNa XIV mission,
as a secondary payload with the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1
on a Delta II from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. RadFxSat-2
will be launched by Virgin Galactic on their LauncherOne air launch
system from Mojave, CA on the ELaNa XX mission no earlier than
December 2017.

Drew, KO4MA, and Jerry, N0JY

http://www.amsat.org/