Hello all.
Here's an announcement that seems to have slipped under the radar.
Kiwisat would appear to be a mainstream AMSAT spacecraft with a lot of interest for everyone. It appears to be on the Russian launch manifest for May 2007
_http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/russia-man.txt_ (http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/russia-man.txt)
May 07 Denpr-1 KatySat 1, KiwiSat, AtmoCube, PolySat 3/4 (CP3/4), CubeSat RAFT, Funsat, UCISat 1, CAPE 1, Libertad 1, MAST 1-3
_http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jpsl/Kiwisat_progress5.htm_ (http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jpsl/Kiwisat_progress5.htm) - dated Jan 06
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David G0MRF
On first examination that doesn't appear to be THE KiwiSat being developed by AMSAT-ZL - it looks more like a cubesat since it's being launched with a group of them When I talked to Ian at the Symposium he was talking more like a 2008 launch for their satellite. But who knows - things change quickly these days.
73,
Emily
At 04:37 AM 12/2/2006, you wrote:
Hello all.
Here's an announcement that seems to have slipped under the radar.
Kiwisat would appear to be a mainstream AMSAT spacecraft with a lot of interest for everyone. It appears to be on the Russian launch manifest for May 2007
_http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/russia-man.txt_ (http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/russia-man.txt)
May 07 Denpr-1 KatySat 1, KiwiSat, AtmoCube, PolySat 3/4 (CP3/4), CubeSat RAFT, Funsat, UCISat 1, CAPE 1, Libertad 1, MAST 1-3
_http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jpsl/Kiwisat_progress5.htm_ (http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jpsl/Kiwisat_progress5.htm) - dated Jan 06
Thanks
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Hi Dave/Guys, 'Fraid not! I don't know where that came from but KiwiSAT will certainly not be flying in May or any other month in 2007. There was some "KiwiSAT"/ "KatySat" name confusion earlier in the year. It could be associated with that. Whilst progress on KiwiSAT is extremely good - and a new web page/progress update will appear within the next few days - we are looking to late 08 at the earliest for our launch. Believe me - you will get chapter and verse from us as soon as we are ready to start fund- raising for a launch........!! Very best 73 Fred Kennedy ZL1BYP KiwiSAT Project Leader for AMSAT-ZL
From: G0MRF@aol.com Date sent: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 07:37:14 EST To: amsat-bb@amsat.org, g.shirville@btinternet.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Up coming launch? Kiwisat
Hello all.
Here's an announcement that seems to have slipped under the radar.
Kiwisat would appear to be a mainstream AMSAT spacecraft with a lot of interest for everyone. It appears to be on the Russian launch manifest for May 2007
_http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/russia-man.txt_ (http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/russia-man.txt)
May 07 Denpr-1 KatySat 1, KiwiSat, AtmoCube, PolySat 3/4 (CP3/4), CubeSat RAFT, Funsat, UCISat 1, CAPE 1, Libertad 1, MAST 1-3
_http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jpsl/Kiwisat_progress5.htm_ (http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jpsl/Kiwisat_progress5.htm) - dated Jan 06
Thanks
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