As of tonight, PSAT2 finally has some photos as it prepares for final testing in our long arduous 3 year campaign.
The Status is that the FCC still has not processed our 2 y ear pending API notice as an Amateur Satellite because they claim there is some Federal "mission". But they have not said what they perceive that Federal mission is? Maybe its because our undergraduate students are "DoD employees" even though the satellite is 100% Amateur Radio with four transponders including AX.25, DTMF, Voice Synthesizer, PSK31, SSTV and HF,VHF and UHF amateur bands built as an undergraduate senior engineering project purely for hands on education in the radio art.
Even the construction used only surplus student senior project electronics from student bins and any purchases used non-DoD and no-federal GIFT funds.
We have tried every argument in the book, but because the FCC is sensitized to some past abuses of some Federal Labs in crossing the line, we are being tossed into the same dirty bathwater.
Oh well. We have 2 weeks to resolve this long going 2 year SNAFU with the FCC or lose this long awaited launch.
Oh, and it is going up on the next SpaceX HEAVY launch.... Either to space or the ocean... or into the closet if the FCC does not act favorably
Bob, WB4APR