Fox Project Status, Updates, and Milestones*
- Fox-1 project defined – July 2011
- Concept of Operations (ConOps) – Sept 2011
- System Requirements Spec (SRS) – Oct 2011
- Experiment Payload Specification – Nov 2011
- NASA ELaNa Proposal Submitted – Nov 2011
- Preliminary milestones for 2012 and 2013:
- Baseline Project Plan – Jan 2012 – Completed
- Preliminary Design Review (PDR) – March 2012 – Completed April 24, 25, and 26th.
- Engineering prototype – July 2012
- Critical Design Review (CDR) – August 2012
- Prototype IHU delivered and successfully initialized – Jan 2013
- Fox-1 IHU demonstrated at Dayton — May 2013
- NASA Launch Scheduled – November 2014
- IARU Frequency Coordination Received – June 2013
(Uplink 435.180 MHz FM, Downlink 145.980 MHz FM)
*Due to ITAR requirements, and available space, details are necessarily limited. Those interested in more details may wish to see the papers in the yearly Proceedings of the AMSAT-NA Space Symposium, available from the AMSAT Store. Some of the relevant presentations by members of the AMSAT Engineering Team may be downloaded here: