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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. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ground-station] Please vote - Ambasat sensor</font>
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<div dir="auto">I bought into the Kickstarter for Ambasat. </div>
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<div><a href="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" originalsrc="https://ambasat.com/" shash="IwP+wTaLbwnKjRj+ksxWKs8NtNPOe32Qq+lhmpH1mkICqB9sLRIp6aceFoSpTo67oK6pZI276lz42GJCBTUmaWLr66R58EvFsMf8+dTVHvxvK+BotRCj9xVlyRURSCbnmIS6PwW0SQcUf6K1BjlcvUynXd1z1HUEJPXigi7wWgE=">https://ambasat.com/</a></div>
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<div dir="auto">I’d like you all to help choose the sensor!</div>
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<div dir="auto">Choices here:</div>
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<div><a href="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" originalsrc="https://ambasat.com/ambasat-2/sensor-options/" shash="VV/UH09i19Ax8cw79rW9SRr0puABXLgWj9sUc2dKbY4VPJcqiewYPolKwhbXuypebL+DQp1dmI6JV5bK8fMgLN6K3H7a0qAq2iDrto34s+RUpYWUP2AzfT89/wNe84EP4wUq7i9xsOg9bZWYlpD7Uvz1qInwtGxYq1GuCm0RB8U=">https://ambasat.com/ambasat-2/sensor-options/</a></div>
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<div dir="auto">This has nothing to do with our project. I acknowledge that Ambasat is controversial. No project funds are involved.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Why post this here?</div>
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<div dir="auto">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
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<div dir="auto">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
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<div dir="auto">-Michelle W5NYV</div>
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