 KiwiSAT
Status Update
The New Zealand Amateur Satellite organisation AMSAT-NZ have published
a KiwiSAT status update on their website, see
http://www.kiwisat.org.nz/status.html
The satellite will carry a number of payloads including an amateur radio
70cm to 2 metre Linear Transponder and could be launched on a DNEPR rocket
in mid to late 2008.
The website says, "The aim remains to get a complete satellite together
and then pour everything we have got into finding sponsors to fund the
Solar Cells and after that – the launch."
The sums that still need to be raised are substantial, for instance,
$NZ 56,000 just for the solar panels.
AMSAT-NZ
http://www.amsat-zl.org.nz/
KiwiSAT
http://www.kiwisat.org.nz/
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