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Hams Invited to Listen for New Satellites

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A trio of university research satellites was carried to orbit Friday evening aboard a Minotaur V rocket as part of a NASA payload. All three satellites use Amateur Radio frequencies and hams have been invited to participate in their missions by monitoring and collecting data.

The FASTRACs are two relatively small “nanosatellites” built by students at the University of Texas-Austin. They enter or...





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