--- On Sun, 14/8/11, Burns Fisher burns@fisher.cc wrote:
This obviously requires additional electronics; in particular the battery can't be on the main power bus; we want to be able to isolate it to prevent it charging on every orbit. But that might be good anyway...the ability to isolate the battery might be desirable when the battery does die for good.
Presumably if RSC Energia provide the resources to launch ARISSat-2 it'll be the spare ARISSat that was delivered to Moscow along with ARISSat-1 that will be going up ?
I guess due to it's current location there'd be little opportunity to make changes to the circuitry ?
I've been very impressed by the Slow Scan TV pictures from the satellite. Including SSTV was a good move both in terms of educational outreach and for promoting Amateur Satellites to the wider Amateur Radio community.
73 Trevor M5AKA