Re: [amsat-bb] Just wondering. Are any of the modules on curently flying Fox Sats opensource?
Thank you. Anyone know what licensing that documentation would be under? If any. (Like an opensource license or if its got no license making it All Rights Reserved)
William Gaylord KD9KCK
(Resent as I forgot to reply to the BB)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 6:16 PM Robert Bankston ke4al@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill,
You can view Fox Engineering Data on the AMSAT website. Link is under Projects|The Fox Project
Direct link is https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/AMSAT-Fox-Documen...
In addition, as an AMSAT member, you can review past issues of the AMSAT Proceedings and The AMSAT Journal archive on our member portal, launch.amsat.org. There's a lot of great information in there.
Robert, KE4AL
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 05:43:52 PM CDT, Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I am just wondering are any of the stuff in the current Fox Sats opensource? If not, why not? If so, where could I find information on it?
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Following on from this, are any of the linear transponder designs available anywhere?
I do regular high-altitude balloon launches, and while FM cross-band repeaters are fun to fly, it would be more interesting to fly a linear transponder. Given there are many linear transponders in use on cubesats (some provided by AMSAT I believe), It would make sense to make use of an existing tested design. If I could buy one 'off-the-shelf' that would be better, since I am quite time-poor at the moment, though I realise this might be quite costly!
73 Mark VK5QI
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:33 AM Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Thank you. Anyone know what licensing that documentation would be under? If any. (Like an opensource license or if its got no license making it All Rights Reserved)
William Gaylord KD9KCK
(Resent as I forgot to reply to the BB)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 6:16 PM Robert Bankston ke4al@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill,
You can view Fox Engineering Data on the AMSAT website. Link is under Projects|The Fox Project
Direct link is
https://www.amsat.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/AMSAT-Fox-Documen...
In addition, as an AMSAT member, you can review past issues of the AMSAT Proceedings and The AMSAT Journal archive on our member portal, launch.amsat.org. There's a lot of great information in there.
Robert, KE4AL
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 05:43:52 PM CDT, Bill Gaylord via
AMSAT-BB
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I am just wondering are any of the stuff in the current Fox Sats opensource? If not, why not? If so, where could I find information on it?
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Hardware and software for Fox have an enormous amount of design information available in AMSAT symposium proceedings, available from the AMSAT store. That is a great place to start.
There are a bunch of US laws and regulations regarding spacecraft design that have so far prevented AMSAT from making things as open as all of us want. That being said, interested parties can work with AMSAT Engineering to get good design info and perhaps help open up the information even more. The government seems to be much less concerned about balloons vs spacecraft.
de KM1P Joe
My big concern is that all these documents even with schematics or anything are no use to open-source projects unless they have a license because with out a license they might as well be All Rights Reserved.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 9:47 AM Joseph B. Fitzgerald jfitzgerald@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
Hardware and software for Fox have an enormous amount of design information available in AMSAT symposium proceedings, available from the AMSAT store. That is a great place to start.
There are a bunch of US laws and regulations regarding spacecraft design that have so far prevented AMSAT from making things as open as all of us want. That being said, interested parties can work with AMSAT Engineering to get good design info and perhaps help open up the information even more. The government seems to be much less concerned about balloons vs spacecraft.
de KM1P Joe
Your concern is widely shared within AMSAT, and a lot of work is being done to try to open things up as much as we we possibly can without attracting attention from lawyers and bureaucrats.
I suspect that if you work with the article authors and/or AMSAT Engineering you will be able to get information released under favorable license terms. In my experience, Fox contributors would like to see the fruits of their efforts used as widely as possible.
de KM1P Joe
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