The AMSAT Board of Directors met on December 2, 2014. As a part of AMSAT’s “Design The Next AMSAT Satellite” challenge, the Board of Directors approved $5000, within the 2015 engineering budget, to be used as seed money for future satellite development. Additional fund raising sources will also be investigated and pursued. AMSAT President Barry … Read more
At the 2014 AMSAT Space Symposium AMSAT Vice President – Engineering Jerry Buxton announced the plan for the next generation of AMSAT satellites. “The door is open for everyone, to submit their ideas. AMSAT Engineering has a long term strategy and this is the first step.” The Engineering long term strategy includes the following goals … Read more
ANTELSat is the first satellite launched by Uruguay. This is a 2U cubesat, and was launched via a Dnepr launch vehicle on 19 June 2014 at 19:11 UTC, from Yasny, Russia. ANTELSat was deployed from UniSat 6 on 20 June 2014, 21:06 UTC. ANTELSat was developed by the Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de … Read more
PolyITAN-1 is the first satellite launched by the Ukraine. This is a 1U cubesat, and was launched via a Dnepr launch vehicle on 19 June 2014 at 19:11 UTC, from Yasny, Russia. PolyITAN-1 was developed by the National University of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian amateur radio community. Stated mission objectives are: Develop, build, test, … Read more