Via the ARRL: AMSAT-DL Submits Lunar Lander Proposal to European Space Agency

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Germany’s amateur satellite organization AMSAT-DL has submitted a comprehensive proposal to the European Space Agency (ESA) for its Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder (LunART) lunar lander — a communications platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments. AMSAT-DL’s Peter Gülzow, DB2OS, and Matthias Bopp, DD1US, say that a LunART (called “LunaART” in the AMSAT-DL proposal) would support direct communication with Earth via amateur radio, support university and student payloads and offer direct access to their experiments, and expand the reach of radio science. It could also provide backup communication capability and capacity during an emergency, or when the ESA network is busy.

Read more – via American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources http://www.arrl.org/news/view/amsat-dl-submits-lunar-lander-proposal-to-european-space-agency

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