AMSAT CubeSatSim Raspberry Pi SD Card

$20 including shipping (to US mailing addresses only) If you enter a non-United States address for shipping, we will refund the purchase and close the order You may have seen the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator or CubeSatSim at Hamvention or at the AMSAT Space Symposium, or read about it in the AMSAT Journal or on social … Read more

AMSAT CubeSatSim PCB

AMSAT CubeSat Simulator Printed Circuit Board Set   v1.2 (White Boards) v1.3 (Blue Boards)   $35 including shipping (to US mailing addresses only) If you enter a non-United States address for shipping, we will refund the purchase and close the order You may have seen the AMSAT CubeSat Simulator or CubeSatSim at Hamvention or at … Read more

GOLF-TEE and GOLF-1 Selected for NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative

On March 2, 2018, NASA announced the ninth round of selections for the CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). The first two AMSAT GOLF CubeSats, GOLF-TEE and GOLF-1, were among the 21 missions recommended for selection. AMSAT must negotiate and execute a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with NASA for each project to finalize selection. NASA … Read more

Why is there so much TLE confusion when new Cubesats are launched?

Every time a CubeSat gets launched, there is some confusion on what TLEs should be used.   This is the result of the process of launching a new amateur CubeSat with other CubeSats, often several dozen at a time.  We then start the  process of determining which object in a “flock” of CubeSats  is associated with … Read more