[amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space

[George Henry]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 900 MHz only allocated for 
terrestrial use, worldwide?  I know that there's no amateur satellite service 
allocation at 902 MHz...


George, KA3HSW



----- Original Message ----
> From: JoAnne Maenpaa <k9jkm at comcast.net>
> To: Bill Ress <bill at hsmicrowave.com>; amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Sent: Mon, October 10, 2011 9:29:21 AM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: KickSat - a personal spacecraft of your own in space
> 
> > Will each Sprite have it's own frequency?
> > 
> > Since these  Sprites are operating in the Amateur satellite 
> > bands, how will you  license them? How will you handle the 
> > frequency coordination of these  transmitters?
> 
> The information that Zac and his team provided to AMSAT  News Service in May,
> 2011 reported that the Sprite prototypes that were  deployed on the ISS
> operated with 10 milliwatts of RF power at 902 MHz using  MSK modulation
> (minimum-shift keying) with a chipping rate of 50  kbps.
> 
> Copy of original release below ...
> 
> --
> 73 de JoAnne  K9JKM
> k9jkm at amsat.org 
> Editor, AMSAT News  Service
> 
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