Amateur Radio Mars mission in NY Times

Amateur Radio Mars Mission P5-A featured in the New York Times

The Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A being built by AMSAT-DL will deploy a balloon craft named Archimedes that will hover close to the surface of Mars taking crisp, full-colour images. The privately financed German Mars Society is building Archimedes.

The Radio Amateurs building the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft have built-up considerable expertise from the construction of previous Amateur Radio satellites including the recent OSCAR-40. They will be testing some of the technologies to be used on the Mars Orbiter on their latest Amateur Satellite P3-E due to be launched in the near future.

The Mars Orbiter will make use of the Amateur Satellite Service allocations at 2.4 at 10.45 GHz and the 10 GHz beacon should be receivable by well-equipped Amateur Radio stations as it travels to Mars.

The New York Times have now picked up this story and their article can be seen at
http://www.nytimes.com/2006....ted=all
See also the graphic illustration in the Multimedia area.

Peter Guelzow DB2OS President of AMSAT-DL will be attending the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Guildford at the end of July to give a presentation on the P3-E satellite and he will no doubt be keen to answer any questions on the Mars Orbiter as well.

The Colloquium is open to all. Further details and the online booking system can be found at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/Colloquium/

For further information on the Mars Orbiter see the billingual P5-A website at http://www.amsat-dl.org/p5a/

The Mars Society (in German only)
http://www.MarsSociety.de/


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