To be fair to AMSAT, there is a ton of documentation, papers, schematics, mechanical drawings, and reports that are published through the AMSAT journal and the annual symposium proceedings. Journal archives are available to members and symposium proceeding copies can be bought through the store.

That's not to say what you are looking for specifically is there, or that this is good enough for someone to consider it 'available'. I don't want to reopen the open source debate, but even when source code and hardware designs are "open" that does not mean they are in a usable / valuable format. I say this to highlight that there is a lot of information shared today.

-Corey KB9JHU

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:55 AM Roy Dean <royldean@gmail.com> wrote:

Zach,

Interesting that you used SpaceX's failed landing clips. This is exactly what we (likely the entire amateur satellite community) are hoping to learn, what caused each of the failures. Sure, SpaceX didn't share HOW they learned what the failures were, but then they are a for-profit company with competitors. Who are AMSAT's competitors? If AMSAT is truly promoting space education (as eluded to in the mission and vision statements), why aren't these documents public? How can we help others (or ourselves) launch successful satellites if we keep all of our procedures secret?

And yes, I AM thinking about volunteering, but I have no clue if my skills are of value. So I'm hoping to see the extent of the engineering documentation in hopes of learning if I can add anything.

--Roy
K3RLD

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