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Petite Amateur Navy Satellite |
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A Proof of Concept, Half-Duplex,
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The Petite Amateur Navy Satellite
(PANSAT) is a small satellite designed and built by officer students,
faculty, and staff at the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS). The main
objective is to support the Space Systems Engineering and
Space Systems Operations Curricula by providing a "hands-on" hardware
project where exposure to the many facets of a space system development
and life cycle can be experienced. PANSAT further provides educational
training while in orbit through a space-based laboratory for officer
students at NPS.
PANSAT was launched from the Shuttle into a low-Earth orbit on the STS-95 Discovery mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) experiment. The spacecraft itself provides store-and-forward (packet radio) digital communications using direct sequence spread spectrum modulation. PANSAT operates in the amateur radio 70 cm band with center frequency at 436.5 MHz, a bit rate of 9842 bits per second and 9 MB of message storage. Amateur radio ground stations will be able to utilize PANSAT via a bulletin-board type user interface
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