[amsat-bb] Only Half of the CubeSats Deployed into Space Work

[M5AKA]

> Please give the reference for "the claimed 50% of those CubeSats actually Deployed in space don't work".
ARRL story http://www.arrl.org/news/stmsat-1-youngsters-told-only-half-of-the-cubesats-deployed-into-space-work
Joe Pellegrino STMSAT-1 Mission Manager https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1wUmAxZJJoMUElNLWQyYktCcHc/view

73 Trevor M5AKA
 

    On Friday, 17 June 2016, 14:17, "skristof at etczone.com" <skristof at etczone.com> wrote:
 

 Please give the reference for "the claimed 50% of those CubeSats
actually Deployed in space don't work". 

Steve AI9IN

On 2016-06-17 03:44, M5AKA via AMSAT-BB wrote:

> Thanks, 
> 
> The figures from the chart show 14.8% of CubeSats fail to work on Deployment and 8% cease working shortly after Deployment.
> 
> A long way from the claimed 50% of those CubeSats actually Deployed in space don't work.
> 73 Trevor M5AKA
> 
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