New CubeSat to feature D-STAR

A new Amateur Radio CubeSat OUFTI-1, built by students at the University of Liege in Belgium is proposing to using the Amateur Radio D-STAR digital-communication protocol.

The objective of the nanosatellite project is to provide hands-on experience to students in the design, construction, and control of complete satellite systems that will ultimately serve as the basis for a variety of space experiments.

The first satellite in the series is called OUFTI-1: it is a CubeSat, which is a cube with a size of 10x10x10 cm and a weight of at most one kilogram.

The key, innovative feature of OUFTI-1 is the use of the
D-STAR amateur-radio digital-communication protocol.

This means of radio-communication will be used for control and telemetry, and will of course be made available to ham-radio operators worldwide. In the future, it will also be used to control space experiments.

OUFTI-1 website
http://www.leodium.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/