Here is the video where this mission object is stated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3o_PV2b9F6g#t=4...
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:44 AM, n0jy n0jy@n0jy.org wrote:
Hi Zach,
On 9/5/2013 9:03 AM, Zach Leffke wrote:
Just throwing this out there:
But what if the SDX that flew on ARISSat, or the one that will be developed for the Future of the Fox series could be "sold" (or given) to the university cubesat community as a radio capable of being used to deliver science data? Their science mission concludes, control is turned over to AMSAT, the radios are reconfigured, and they become transponder birds for the ham community.
Yes, and this is one of the goals of the Fox project too!
We can partner with the universities, providing the transponder and bus (Fox-1A, RadFXSat) which may be dedicated to their experiment for some years or not, depending on the downlink needs (i.e. Fox-1 has high speed for youse guys, and the slow speed accommodates Vanderbilt). We have a transponder dedicated to ham use when the experiment(s) are through or even while they are going on. Or once Fox-1 is finished and all of the details are published, any institution could use the design for their project and "give back" (as a gesture of kindness for all the work we saved them and excellent science we helped them gather) the transponder when they are done with their science. It gives them a proven reliable system that they don't have to engineer on their own. It gives us another transponder if not on launch, at least eventually. Fox-2 will do the same for ham satellite SDX. Anybody know any young people who are in a position to help sell this paradigm to universities? ;-)
Jerry
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