[amsat-bb] Just wondering. Are any of the modules on curently flying Fox Sats opensource?

Bill Gaylord chibill110 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 18:04:30 UTC 2020


My big concern is that all these documents even with schematics or anything
are no use to open-source projects unless they have a license because with
out a license they might as well be All Rights Reserved.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 9:47 AM Joseph B. Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald at alum.wpi.edu>
wrote:

> Hardware and software for Fox have an enormous amount of design
> information available in AMSAT symposium proceedings, available from the
> AMSAT store.   That is a great place to start.
>
> There are a bunch of US laws and regulations regarding spacecraft design
> that have so far prevented AMSAT from making things as open as all of us
> want.   That being said, interested parties can work with AMSAT Engineering
> to get good design info and perhaps help open up the information even
> more.   The government seems to be much less concerned about balloons vs
> spacecraft.
>
> de KM1P Joe
>
>


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