[Ground-station] Please vote - Ambasat sensor

[Howie DeFelice]

It has a LoRA radio on board which is really cool. I always thought that LoRA on a LEO would make a great Store  and Forward messaging sat. The chirp spread spectrum modulation handles doppler quite well and LoRA chips on carrier boards are easy to find to make ground stations.  Unfortunately there is little chance we could license it since the FCC decided that anything smaller than a 1U cubesat is too small to track.

Howie
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Subject: [Ground-station] Please vote - Ambasat sensor

I bought into the Kickstarter for Ambasat.
https://ambasat.com/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fambasat.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2c3f3cef695d4bdb07b208d7429697ee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637051086889564741&sdata=HQ1maV9Z5PGG%2BUZf%2FqV5zFpH8qsFQ0WDvC4BHQkJ5rE%3D&reserved=0>

I’d like you all to help choose the sensor!

Choices here:
https://ambasat.com/ambasat-2/sensor-options/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fambasat.com%2Fambasat-2%2Fsensor-options%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2c3f3cef695d4bdb07b208d7429697ee%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637051086889574740&sdata=0gUbpgbQldmIxAydIuXk6fdBWaQQmBuY8yEH48Rpe64%3D&reserved=0>

Disclaimer:
This has nothing to do with our project. I acknowledge that Ambasat is controversial. No project funds are involved.

Why post this here?

Details:
I asked Ambasat about a custom amateur radio payload, so we could test something for us. The kickstarter had that option. The lead of Ambasat said yes, amateur payload ok, several people I asked at Virginia Tech said go for it, and a small group looked at the specs and tried to design something useful for us. But, the very compact size and power budget was quite daunting. And the time frame was very short. We don’t have enough miniaturization or time. Instead of a custom board, we have a standard flight and a ground version.

Instead of quietly sending this up, I wanted to share it with the team as something fun. I just received the survey for the sensors, so we easily have a week at least to vote. It includes some sensors already. The free choice is an additional sensor slot.

-Michelle W5NYV


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-Michelle W5NYV

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