IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination
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IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination |
| SNAPPY | Updated: 09 Oct 2025 | Responsible Operator | Nickolas Solomey KF0BZN | |
| Supporting Organisation | Wichita State University | |||
| Contact Person | nsolomey@gmail.com.nospam | |||
| Headline Details: A 3U CubeSat mission. The mission scope includes 1. Directly supporting Amateur activity by supporting uplink tests to the spacecraft, and downlink tests from the spacecraft to the amateur station. To benefit the larger Amateur radio community, the SNAPPY spacecraft will be available as an on-demand test beacon. To schedule a test, amateur radio operators can contact Prof. Meyer (KF4UIW) at Wichita State University, through a form on the website or by email. The timing of the test beacon transmission can then be coordinated based on the spacecraft orbit and the requirements of the amateur operator. Similarly, amateurs can schedule upload a unique packet and WSU will let them know if the packet was received and the quality of the reception. 2. Conducting research into Amateur radio disruption from solar wind particles and gamma ray bursts. This will be done in two frequencies of UHF 437 MHz and the S-band 2000 MHz frequency. Amateur radio suffers disruption from solar wind particles and gamma ray bursts. SNAPPY will track the intensity of these emissions, and data from the CubeSat can be matched with volunteer amateur radio quality to see if the solar wind charged particle data measured from the science mission can be a precursor to a more major disruption of communications with the help of those amateur radio operators who make online reports. 3. Collecting science data on solar wind particles, gamma ray bursts and characterizing instruments to make these measurements. Proposing a UHF downlink using 2k4 GFSK2 and planning a launch by Exolaunch from Vandenberg in Q1 2026 into a 500km polar orbit. | ||||
| Application Date: | 22 Sep 2025 | Freq coordination completed on | ||
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