I've enjoyed watching some of the news published about STMSat-1. There was some false hope about it being off frequency (by 500 kHz!,) some story of "rebooting the satellite," and a lack of command and control capability. I attribute this to some of their social media posters not actually vetting their content with the project's technical champion(s). Thankfully the children of the STM School have been able to learn a great deal from this project and its sponsors deserve kudos.
In general, many of the amateur or CubeSat projects don't have much Public Relations scope beyond a webpage or Facebook. Some groups are starting to get into Twitter. Having a presence in social media or on the web is great. However, if you don't have an educated representative posting or at minimum reviewing content, the followers grow weary and start to question things. This leads to a negative PR fiasco.
It is nice to see more groups posting updates on their respective project pages and social media. Anything done to promote the hobby and bolster amateur experimentation is a win for the AMSAT community.
73 Clayton W5PFG
On 6/17/2016 08:59, M5AKA via AMSAT-BB wrote:
ARRL story http://www.arrl.org/news/stmsat-1-youngsters-told-only-half-of-the-cubesats-... Joe Pellegrino STMSAT-1 Mission Manager https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1wUmAxZJJoMUElNLWQyYktCcHc/view
73 Trevor M5AKA