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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/AUKSUG6B3S2QYAYUV24E6L2AKBLF6APH/",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat (a) elkmtn.org",
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    "sender_name": "Alex, N3SQ",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]   Re: AMSAT, ITAR, More AMSAT-NA Volunteers & Such .",
    "date": "2009-11-16T23:51:04Z",
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    "content": "For those following what was announced at the AMSAT Symposium, there are \ntwo different ways AMSAT is working with the Universities:\n(a) AMSAT-NA helps a University Satellite Program: This is the case with \nUCF, AMSAT volunteers are helping a University with their satellites.\n(b) A University helps the AMSAT-NA Satellite Program: This is the case \nwith Binghamton University, BU Students are helping build & launch AMSAT \nsatellites.\n\nThe two ways are not mutually exclusive, each has benefits.\n\nThe BU activity was organized to help get AMSAT back on it's engineering \nfeet and to provide continuing assistance. We're doing that by providing \nengineering assistance and manpower to help AMSAT launch more modular \ndesign satellites ASAP. We're at 35 students right now, that number can \ngrow significantly next fall at AMSAT's direction. Our goal is to get an \nEngineering model of the NextGen satellite bus ready for the AMSAT booth \nat the Dayton Hamvention in May 2010. Engineering model says we have the \nmodified spaceframe with deployable wings ready, power system ready \n(with mock supercaps & solar cells) and the non-flight boards installed \n- basically stuffed 'n mounted on a stand for your viewing.\n\nNextGen is an open-source spacecraft bus, it will provide a stable & \nrobust platform for any university to build an experiment to fit within \nthe bus.\nI would personally advocate AMSAT launching up to two or three of the \nNextGen-class spacecraft in different 600-800km, sun-synchronous orbits \nto provide as much worldwide  coverage as possible. Given the proposed \ncharacteristics of the NextGen spacecraft bus, there is a strong \npossibility of carrying an IF Matrix Switch with L/S RF capability \ninstead of an experiment payload. This would provide capabilities \nsimilar to AO-51  (V/U, V/S, L/U, L/S) but using SDX with an IF Matrix \nSwitch.\n\nBy using Supercapacitors instead of batteries there is a very good \nchance of having a significant satellite lifespan (15+ years).\n\nAll technology developed can be applied to other classes of AMSAT \nspacecraft, just as NextGen is using modules from the ARISSat-class \nspacecraft. I would expect that ARISSat-2 will most likely take \nadvantage of the power system modifications developed for NextGen.\n\nThe possibilities are endless, all it takes are more people interested \nin working on a module.\n\nAlex, N3NP\n\n\n",
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