Stig Östlund

söndag, maj 19, 2013

AMSAT Fox-1 launch date announced

 

NASA announced on May 13, 2013 that AMSAT’s Fox-1 spacecraft has been assigned for launch in 2014 on the ELaNa XII mission.
The expected orbit is 470 x 780 km at 64 degrees inclination. This orbit has a lifetime of about 11 years.
AMSAT Vice President Engineering, Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, reported that the software development team successfully brought up the Fox-1 system software on the Internal Housekeeping Unit (IHU). The IHU is the brains of the Fox-1 satellite and it has a 32-bit, STM32L microprocessor. The operating IHU card was shown in the AMSAT Engineering booth at the Dayton Hamvention.


AMSAT = The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation

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