UoSAT-3: Lessons Learned from Three Years of Serving the Development Community

摘要

The Pacsat Communications Experiment mission, sponsored by Volunteers In Technical Assistance, and which evolved into the UoSAT-3 spacecraft, was planned in the late 1980's following the success of the Digital Communications Experiment on UoSAT-2.This paper reviews the original mission design, options considered, selected or discarded, and the results and lessons learned during the on-going non-amateur radio operations of the UoSAT-3 Pacsat Communications Experiment payload since its commissioning in early 1991.