[amsat-bb] Major Grant for Open Source Amateur Radio Satellite Service Work

[Joseph Armbruster]

Michelle,

With respects to the technical stuff, what is the current state of affairs
with the ground station?

1) Does this presentation represent the most up2date picture of the current
state of affairs or is there a more recent publication available?
https://github.com/phase4ground/documents/blob/master/Papers_Articles_Presentations/Slide_Presentations/p4xt_phase_one_workshop.pptx

2) There are about 7 teams laid out at the end of the presentation
(build/rpu/apu/etc...).  How big is the team right now and are there any
areas that need support?

3) How aggressive is the development timeline?  Or, maybe to help get a
grip on it, what are the teams milestones, say for the next 6 months (high
level).

4) I see a lot of off the shelf (analogdevices/trenz/etc...) hardware in
the presentation.  They appear to be commercial / non-oss type stuff.  Are
you using some of them for short-term prototyping, with the intent of
replacing them once a particular subsystem is designed and built out?

5) When is the project slated to be complete, or at least, slated to have a
prototype that one could potentially build independently and/or order and
tinker with?

Thank You in advance for the update,
Joseph Armbruster
KJ4JIO