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SC-FRYER Updated: 15 Aug 2026   Responsible Operator Benjamin William Wilberforce Cutmore VE2AID
Supporting Organisation Space Concordia at Concordia University  
Contact Person benjamin.cutmore@spaceconcordia.ca.nospam  
Headline Details: A 3U CubeSat. There are two primary missions of this project: AstroYeast: The first payload of the mission is designed in collaboration with AstroYeast, a graduate student group from Concordia University. The payload focuses on exploring the feasibility of growing and analyzing yeast in a pressurized, zero-gravity environment. AI Fire Recognition: This payload is in partnership with Zetane System, a software company that focuses on AI development & design. Zetane will be providing our team with their AI model to test in flight; proving the feasibility of using an AI model in flight to perform earth observation data analysis, thus reducing the amount of unnecessary data that would be downlinked. The data gathered will be used to aid in wildfire detection, and will be available to the public under the MIT open source license. No The SC-FREYR project contributes to the amateur radio community by providing a platform / project for students, faculty, and the local community to collaborate and build upon. With the ground station, we can collaborate with our local amateur clubs to provide training and allow certified operators to utilize the ground station for amateur-purposes (ex: AMSAT operation, EME, etc…). On the satellite side, our team plans to implement a “digi-peater” similar to what was implemented on GreenCube (IO-117). We can provide amateurs another satellite to allow for two-way communication via a LEO cubesat. We will further contribute to the amateur satellite service through a student-made S Band transceiver. The project aims to provide a low cost, open source design that other cubesat projects can use in the near future. Proposing aa UHF downlink using GMSK up to 38k4 data rate “Mode 5”, per GOMSpace documentation. This mode utilizes ASM & Golay to frame the packet. It is also the only mode that GOMSpace is providing technical support for. For error detection on the downlink, a 4 byte CRC32 checksum will be added to each frame. Planning a Voyager launch to the ISS Q2/Q3 2027. SC-FREYR is a part of the latest CSA CUBICS batch. May be launched from a Voyager deployer alongside: RADSAT-SK2, Killick-2, PRESET, IceCube, Ex-Alta 3, & SKYA’ANAsat More info at https://spaceconcordia.ca/spacecraft
Application Date: 15 Aug 2026   Freq coordination completed on

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