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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: ECUADOR TO LAUNCH AN EDUCATIONAL
CUBESAT LOADED WITH FIRSTS
An upcoming launch of 17 amateur radio satellites will also
carry one with several firsts to orbit. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, reports:
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Among the birds to be lofted this November will be an
innovative educational satellite built in Ecuador and known
as NEE-01 Pegasus. This tiny 1 Unit CubeSat has a large
fold-out solar array and carries a 902 MHz, 720 line
Progressive Scan High Definition camera and associated TV
transmitter. The latter will send video of the Earth to
school students in Ecuador.
The NEE-01 Pegasus engineering team was led by Commander
Ronnie Nader who was Ecuador's first astronaut. The
satellite was featured in the July 15 edition of Ecuador's
El Murcurio newspaper. That article in electronically
translated English is on-line at tinyurl.com/Ecuador-in-
Space
Im Dom Wilbanks, AE5DW.
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Cubesats are tiny satellites that are economical to both
build and carry to orbit making them attractive to
institutions of learning as well as to the ham radio
community. (ANS)
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