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Last Updated on:
Monday, June 30, 2008
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SuitSat pushes Amateur Radio engineers' limitsA TechOnline article by Patrick Mannion features the forthcoming ARISS/AMSAT Amateur Radio SuitSat-2 project. The "Under The Hood" article "Extreme design: SuitSat pushes engineers' limits" by Patrick Mannion describes the work of Lou McFadin W5DID, Steve Bible N7HPR and others who are building on the successes of SuitSat-1 to produce SuitSat-2. The SuitSats make use of decommissioned Space Suits on the International Space Station (ISS). They are converted for Amateur Radio educational applications and then launched from the ISS. SuitSat-2 will feature Amateur Slow Scan TV transmissions and a crossband linear transponder. Read the full article by Patrick Mannion at http://www.techonline.com/showArticle.jhtml? TechOnline TechOnline is a suppliment of EETimes http://www.eetimes.com/ Video of the launch of SuitSat-1 http://cmptv.net/teardown/SuitSat SuitSat-2 to have Ham Radio Transponders http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/11/09/101/ SuitSat-2 Goes to College http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/01/24/101/?nc=1 SuitSat Website: http://www.suitsat.org/ ARISS: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ AMSAT-NA: http://www.amsat.org/
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