30 Oct
2019
30 Oct
'19
9:37 a.m.
The AMSAT-ID usage of IO-86 for scouts, etc. brought to mind another use of the proposed payload. What if it was possible to build in a STEM aspect such the usage of the FUNcubes which are planned for use by education programs during the day - and, then available for amateur radio usage when the satellite is in eclipse (assuming there are no school kids since it's before or after school when it's dark outside).
Of course that means that besides the engineers and operations people getting the satellite up there we'd need folks on the ground to create the STEM mission. I've heard of a future AMSAT Youth Initiative on the table and this might be a platform for that program to take off ... so to speak.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org