Radio Amateurs on NASA TV Radio amateurs Jerry Buxton, N0JY and Courtney Duncan, N5BF were on the panel at a NASA prelaunch briefing on Wednesday, October 7 Participants in the news briefing discussed several of the specific CubeSats aboard the National Reconnaissance Office’s NRO-L55 mission. Four of the CubeSats are NASA-sponsored and nine are NRO-sponsored, one of which was developed with NASA funding. The mission is scheduled to launch Oct. 8 from California’s Vandenburg Air Force Base. The panel comprised: • Richard Welle, director, Microsatellite Systems department at The Aerospace Corporation • Tim Olson, principal investigator for BisonSat, Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana • Morgan Johnson, team lead for the ARC CubeSat, University of Alaska, Fairbanks • Jerry Buxton, N0JY vice president, Engineering, for AMSAT Fox-1 • Courtney Duncan, N5BF, principal investigator for LMRST-Sat, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Jerry described the Fox-1A mission and science, and answered questions. Watch CubeSats on a Mission! AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AmsatUK Facebook https://facebook.com/AmsatUK YouTube https://youtube.com/AmsatUK
