ARISSat-1 is an amateur radio satellite to be hand launched from the International Space Station during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity).

A tentative date for the launch is October 2010.

Teachers and students are invited to fly a file aboard this amateur radio satellite. The ARISSat-1 Team wishes to include on our new satellite a memory stick of files prepared by students.  This should be a jpg or pdf of things the student has prepared such as a paper or a study done on a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) topic, a drawing of space craft or a schematic, a journal kept on a STEM topic, a story or news article about a STEM subject, a photo of the class doing a hands-on STEM activity -- that type of thing.

Files should be either .JPG or .PDF  -- no Word documents, please.  Please send files to Dave Jordan's address --  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

If the file contains photos or names of persons, a "Talent Authorisation and Release" is requested. The appropriate document can be downloaded from HERE.

The permission slip has to be signed by the student or his/her guardian if the student is a minor.

The signed Release Form is to be e-mailed in pdf format to Dave Jordan.

Thirteen members of the ARISSat team met in Orlando Monday and Tuesday, 15-16 February 2010 to perform a Design Review of the ARISSat satellite. The team worked long hours going through over 23 presentations targeting the major areas of the satellite.

Links to the presentations.

These presentations have been converted to pdf files so they can be easily shared.

ARISSat Overview

Mechanical

Solar Panels

Control Panel

IHU (computer)

Cameras

SDX (Software Defined Xponder)

Power Management

Transmissions

ICB (Interconnect board)

Cables

Battery

PSU (Power Supply)

Experiment

RF unit

Max Power Trackers

Telemetry

Nomenclature

Shipping Container

Antenna

The team has a few components to finish and is working on an extensive test plan, and looking forward to performing thermal, vacuum and vibration test.

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Gould, WA4SXM

Gould Smith, WA4SXM writing on behalf of the ARISSAT-1 team said construction of the flight unit begins in early February when Tony Monteiro, AA2TX begins electronic assembly of the first US flight unit for ARISSat.

the ARISSAT-1 team has had prototypes working for months. The enclosures have been painted by NASA and the cables prepared by Larry Brown, W7LB. The flight boards were built by the Microchip ARISSat team and Chuck Green, N0ADI, with Chuck checking all the flight units. Lou McFadin, W5DID has nearly assembled a complete flight structure (see photo above) designed by Bob Davis, KF4KSS. Lou expects to exhibit the structure in the AMSAT Booth at the upcoming Orlando HamCation. The first two flight TX/RX/Command receiver modules from Bill Ress, N6GHZ are due to arrive in February.

We just found out that ARISSat will receive a new callsign and some additional Russian greetings will be added. We will have more than 25 international greetings from around the world in twelve languages broadcast on the FM downlink. In addition to the greetings will be voice ID, voice telemetry values, SSTV images, CW signals, a new 1k BPSK signal by Phil Karn, KA9Q sending full telemetry and experiment data and a 16 kHz wide transponder. Kurst State University in Russia is providing the experiment and the Silver-Zinc battery for the mission.