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07/30/2016 | Fox-1B (RadFxSat) Nears Completion
AMSAT-NA Vice President-Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, reports that the Fox-1B CubeSat (RadFxSat) flight unit has been assembled and now is undergoing various stages of testing.
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04/26/2016 | Three ESA “Fly Your Satellite!” Program CubeSats Now in Orbit
Three student-built CubeSats — including the first to carry a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) Amateur Radio payload into space — now are successfully in orbit following an April 25 launch from Guiana.
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04/12/2016 | First-Ever D-STAR Satellite to Launch in April
he first-ever satellite to carry a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) Amateur Radio payload into space is expected to launch on April 22 from Guiana.
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02/19/2016 | AMSAT Seeks Volunteers to Support Phase 4 “Five and Dime” Ground Terminal Effort
Established less than 1 year ago, AMSAT’s all-volunteer Phase 4 Ground Terminal team has made significant strides in developing an ensemble of solutions to support AMSAT's so-called “Five and Dime” (5 GHz and 10 GHz) strategy.
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12/24/2015 | First Geosynchronous Orbit Amateur Radio Payload Could Aid Disaster Communication
Well-known AMSAT figure and Virginia Tech researcher Bob McGwier, N4HY, says the Amateur Radio payload planned to go into geosynchronous orbit in 2017 will be like “a new ham band” for the Americas.
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07/25/2015 | AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-DL, and Virginia Tech Announce Potential Phase 3E Opportunity
Virginia Tech has approached the US Government to fly the Phase 3E space frame into high-Earth orbit (HEO) in order to support scientific payloads as well as serve as an Amateur Radio satellite.
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07/22/2015 | Party Balloon Carrying Ham Radio Payload Circles Southern Hemisphere a Second Time
After travelling for more than 110,800 km (68,696 mi) aloft, the record-setting pico balloon PS-46, carrying an Amateur Radio payload, completed its second circumnavigation of the Southern Hemisphere.
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06/04/2015 | Another Australian Balloon with a Ham Radio Payload Circumnavigates Earth
The circumnavigation of another foil balloon from Australia carrying a ham radio payload has demonstrated that having one circle the Southern Hemisphere is no fluke.
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