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MILESTONE: Flight-Version Prototype

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paul-kocylaPaul Kocyla 02/16/2015 at 10:416 Comments
Chipstar prototype soldered.
That´s the (semi)final version of the actual chipstar board in the flight version.
Some small modifications may be made depending if we´ll deploy of a CubeSat or a PocketQub.

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vcazan wrote 02/26/2015 at 17:03 point

This is a great, when do you think you will have these ready to play with?

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Paul Kocyla wrote 02/26/2015 at 21:33 point

The first series board (8 pieces on one PCB) is already in production.
I´ll do a partplacing with stencil first - if everything goes well, then it can go into the placing machine. Shoud be a matter of a few weeks.

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Austin Marandos wrote 02/17/2015 at 03:05 point

Awesome, I'm thinking of setting up a SatNogs ground stations I'm located in Australia, so i may be able to help you with communication with the satellite.

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Paul Kocyla wrote 02/17/2015 at 09:38 point

Cool. The SatNogs should be good to get the signal.

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Austin Marandos wrote 02/16/2015 at 21:49 point

looks great

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Paul Kocyla wrote 02/16/2015 at 21:58 point

Thanx :) I´ll make a balloon test soon. I´ll be away for vacation for one week, but then I´ll prepare a helium balloon to test the TX power. Calculations are ok, but the reality is kinda different, so it is better to find out how the system behaves in reality.

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