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Jonathan Brandenburg, KF5IDY, Appointed AMSAT Assistant Vice President - Engineering

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:44:35 +0000
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by: ARRL de WD1CKS - Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:44 UTC

12/15/2021

AMSAT has announced that Jonathan Brandenburg, KF5IDY, has been designated as
Assistant Vice President - Engineering to oversee a new program tentatively
named "Fox Plus."

Jerry Buxton, N0JY, AMSAT's Vice President - Engineering, said, "Jonathan
brought a new idea to me for continuous LEO [low-Earth orbit] presence through
a refresh of AMSAT's Fox-1 FM satellite. In using the basic Fox-1 bus design,
the ability to fly not only student STEM experiments but our own radio
experiments as well, provides an opportunity to refresh the presence of LEO
'Easy-Sat' type communications and bring in new volunteer engineers to develop
the new transceiver and power supply needed to resurrect Fox-1 type CubeSats."

Brandenburg told Buxton that he intends to target frequent deliveries of Fox
Plus CubeSats into orbit, wide use of open-source in the program, and utilizing
the ASCENT platform for development of future iterations of Fox Plus. The 2022
Engineering budget includes funds for the program's startup. - Thanks to AMSAT
News Service

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