EaglePedia is now open

This week AMSAT EAGLE Project Manager Jim Sanford, WB4GCS, announced that EaglePedia is now open for general use.

EaglePedia is the communication medium used by the EAGLE developers, and is now accessible to all AMSAT members.

A basic principle of the EAGLE project is open design, so Jim made the decision to open access to the EAGLE development effort once EaglePedia, a new effort itself, was judged to be ready for general use.

"The entire Eagle team has been enthusiastically supportive of openness to the members," said Jim. "We are excited to give all AMSAT members the opportunity to understand and to follow the design process of the various satellite components and systems".

Emily Clarke, N1DID has developed and customized the EaglePedia application using the MediaWiki software engine that was developed for Wikipedia. "I'd like to thank Emily for all her efforts. She has adapted the wiki product to our needs, educated the illiterati (mostly me) and added functions to make it easier for us to use. EaglePedia would not be the tool that it is, without tremendous effort on Emily's part, and I am extremely grateful for all her work."

All major decisions about the space craft and their supporting documentation will be available through the site. Although only EAGLE team members will have the ability to comment on what is posted there, all will be able to see them.

Jim notes that, "There will be some areas of the site that are available only for internal EAGLE team communications during the preliminary development stages. I have made this decision to allow unfettered communications among the team during the early phases of concept refinement and design. Once peer review of a design is complete, the initial design, peer review comments, the resolution of those comments, and the revised and approved designs will all be available to AMSAT members."

Jim, the entire EAGLE team, and AMSAT President Rick Hambly encourage everyone interested in amateur satellites to take advantage of this 'new way of working' and to follow the EAGLE design process and developments.
"We are excited about offering the unprecedented access into EAGLE's development. I fully expect this approach to enhance the EAGLE design process and improve overall product quality", said Rick.

EaglePedia can be accessed via the AMSAT.org front page using the EAGLE link in the 'Quick Access to Project Pages:' section in the top right of the page.

Welcome to open satellite design.

Jim, WB4GCS

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