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Subj: AMSAT at the Nanosat-3 Design Review
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 060.02 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. February 29, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-060.02
NASA and the AFRL had a review/poster session with the University Nanosat 3
team of universities just a few weeks ago. This was held near the Dulles
Airport in the DC area. All 13 universities were in attendance. We also
had a significant contingent of AMSAT leadership there including Tom Clark,
W3IWI, Art Feller, W4ART, Perry Klein, W3PK, Mark Kanawati, N4TPY and Frank
Bauer, KA3HDO. They provided significant guidance to the university
students, the professors and to the NASA and AFRL members in attendance.
There was a lot of AMSAT hardware development knowledge in that room. The
AMSAT team members had some substantial one-on-one dialogue with the
university teams on frequency coordination, dos and don'ts of spacecraft
design, etc.
This was our opportunity to discuss how their projects might fit into the
structure of amateur radio. Art and Tom had collected the relevant AMSAT &
IARU literature into one place. This 1 Mbyte data package included:
Blank IARU Satellite Coordination Request
The FAQ list prepared over the past year
The DRAFT IARU Satellite frequency charts [AF] had collected
Jan King's LEO Link Budget Excel spreadsheet
The 34-page IARU document and checklist
A "Join AMSAT" application
A list of AMSAT mentors.
And the new paper "What is AMSAT?" Annual Report
Art provided about half the universities with this material on CD, while Tom
provided the other half by "sneakernet" using a USB "chewing gum" memory
stick. This was material was also provided to update the closed USAF/NASA
University website. Overall whole event was a win-win for the universities,
for the government agencies that sponsored it and for AMSAT. Events like
this one hold great promise as a model for future collaborations with
universities building satellites.
There will be another University Nanosat review planned for the small sat
conference in August. AMSAT has been invited to support this with
reviewers. Planning is underway for AMSAT experts to be there to provide
their guidance and sage knowledge to these young students.
[ANS thanks Frank, KA3HDO and Tom, W3IWI, for the above information]
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