Amateur Radio mission to Mars

The Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A features in a video recently added to YouTube.

The Amsat P5-A will be the first spacecraft built by Radio Amateurs to go to the Red planet, indeed it is the first ever private interplanetary spacecraft.

It will use frequencies in the Amateur Satellite Service allocations at 2.4 and 10 GHz. When it gets to Mars the signal from the spacecraft will be very weak.

This demonstates the need for the both the Amateur Radio and Amateur Satellite Services to have access to Low Noise Floor allocations in the microwave spectrum so they can carry out weak signal experimentation.

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Billingual Mars Orbiter P5-A website
http://www.amsat-dl.org/p5a/

Ticket To Mars
http://ticket-to-mars.org/

AMSAT-UK publish a Newletter OSCAR News which is full of Amateur Satellite information. For further details contact Jim Heck G3WGM.
Tel: + 44 (0)1258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
Web: http://www.uk.amsat.org/