Hi Trevor,
Unfortunately, there were several errors in the article. AMSAT was not involved in the article preparation.
AMSAT sponsored this senior design project at Penn State for the 2011-2012 academic year. The students developed a super-capacitor based energy storage device to replace the battery on ARISSat type satellites. The advantage of super-capacitors is very long life but they do not yet have sufficient energy density to use on a CubeSat.
73, Tony AA2TX --- On 5/13/2012 4:32 PM, Trevor . wrote:
Go Erie reports on the work of students from Penn State Behrend who have been building part of a satellite for AMSAT.
See http://www.uk.amsat.org/7381
The report says:
"They admit, though, that they're a little disappointed their project will likely have to hitch a ride aboard a Russian spacecraft now that the shuttle program has been discontinued."
I initially assumed the satellite in question was FOX until I saw the Russian reference.
Can someone clarify which satellite is being referred to.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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