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Amateur Radio Transponder Will Accompany Japanese Asteroid Mission into Deep Space

Thread starter ARRL
Start date Sep 2, 2014

ARRL

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Sep 2, 2014

According to a news report, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission, now scheduled to launch in December, will carry the Abyss 2 (Shin’en 2) Amateur Radio satellite. A 17 kg, 50 cm diameter polyhedron, Shin’en 2, built by students at Kyushu Inistitute of Technology, makes extensive use of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic materials that can be bonded by heat to r...

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Amateur Radio Transponder Will Accompany Japanese Asteroid Mission into Deep Space

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