Students testing SuitSat-2 components

At its face-to-face meeting in San Francisco, the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team approved a second SuitSat project, an amateur radio system housed in an Orlan suit which has outlived its usefulness for the ISS crew.

Much of SuitSat-1’s design will be reused in this second project but this time a software designed radio and solar
cells will be incorporated into the system.

The hardware team has been designing and developing the circuitry for the new satellite. The printed circuit boards were delivered to AMSAT members Bob McGwier, N4HY, and Frank Brickle, AB2KT, who are teaching an elective course on software defined radios at The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College).

The students enrolled in the course (approximately half of
the senior electrical engineering class) will test the boards.

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