AMSAT logo The Future of Amateur Satellites
                                      
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  AMSAT Phase-3D - Multi-National
  
   Phase-3D is AMSAT's most ambitious amateur spacecraft construction
   project to date. For more information see the Phase-3D page.
   
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  RS-16 - Russia
  
   RS-16 is expected to launch in early 1997 into a 95-minute,
   97.2-degree inclination orbit. It will have an uplink band of 145.915
   to 145.948 MHz, a downlink band of 29.415 to 29.448 MHz, and beacons
   at 29.408 MHz, 29.451 MHz, 435.504 MHz, and 435.548 MHz.
   
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  SUNSAT - South Africa
  
   SUNSAT is a 60kg, 45 by 45 by 62 cm micro satellite being designed,
   built and tested by students at the Electronic Systems Laboratory in
   the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at
   Stellenbosch University.
   
   Here is a more detailed description of SUNSAT by Henry Chamberlain ,
   ZS1AAZ
   
   Visit the SUNSAT web page at http://esl.ee.sun.ac.za/
   
   For more information contact:
   
     Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS5AKV, AMSAT-SA
     AMSAT@uctvms.UCT.AC.ZA
     Member of SUNSAT ADVISORY BOARD (In charge of PR and Publications)
     
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  PANSAT - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
  
   PANSAT is a microsatellite design that will provide an amateur radio
   store-and-forward message system. It is being designed and built at
   the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. This amateur
   satellite will be unique among the PACSAT style satellites in that it
   will employ direct sequence spread-spectrum communications.
   
   For more information about PANSAT and the Space Systems Academic Group
   at NPS, visit the web page at
   http://www.sp.nps.navy.mil/pansat/pansat.html
   
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  SEDSAT - University of Huntsville, Alabama
  
   SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
   
   The University of Huntsville, Alabama is designing and constructing
   SEDSAT-1. To learn more, see their web pages for UAH-SEDS SEDSAT
   Project at http://www.seds.org/sedsat/
   
   For more information about SEDS USA, see their Web pages at
   http://enws229.eas.asu.edu/asusat/asusat.html
   
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  TechSat-2 - Haifa, Israel
  
   The TechSat project is a micro-satellite project conducted at the
   Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel by an academic group
   of scientist and students. Visit the TechSat web page at
   http://www.technion.ac.il/pub/projects/techsat.
   
   The Israel Amateur Radio Club is involved in the TechSat project.
   
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  Maëlle - France
  
   The telecommunications amateur micro-satellite experiment Maëlle is a
   project sponsored by AMSAT-France. Visit the AMSAT-France web pages at
   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AMSAT_F/
   
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  Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics - Stanford University, Stanford,
  California
  Satellite Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL)
  SQUIRT - Satellite QUIck Research Testbed
  
   There are currently two SQUIRT satellites under construction at SSDL.
   They are:
   
     * SQUIRT1 named SAPPHIRE - Stanford Audio Phonic PHotographic
       InfraRed Experiment
     * SQUIRT2 named OPAL - Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher
       
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  ASUSat1 - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
  
   ASUSat1 is a project of the Aerospace Research Center at Arizona State
   University, Tempe, Arizona. Launch is expected March 1997. The ASUSat1
   web page is at http://enws229.eas.asu.edu/asusat/asusat.shtml.
   
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  The PICOSAT Project
  
   PICOSATs are small satellites that are being designed on the Internet.
   A lengthly description of the project is provided on the PICOSAT
   System home page at http://www2.cordis.lu/esprit/src/picosat.htm.
   
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  KITSAT-3 - Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
  
   Visit the KAIST Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) web
   pages at http://satrec.kaist.ac.kr
   
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  HUTSAT - Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
  
   The Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Space Technology
   Small Satellite Technology is designing and building HUTSAT (Helsinki
   University of Technology SATellite). The project started in 1992. The
   flight model is planned to be completed and tested by the end of 1996.
   Launch is scheduled for 1997.
   
   Information on HUTSAT is available from the Small Satellite Technology
   web page at http://avasun.hut.fi/Projects/project10.html.
   
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   News of other small satellite projects can be found at:
   
   The University of Surrey Small Satellite Homepage
       
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