MEMEsat-1 Satellite - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft	MEMEsat-1 (Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	2U
Status	not launched, expected in 2024
Launcher	not launched
Organisation	University of Georgia
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Headquarters	US
Partners	Let’s Go to Space
Oneliner	Primary mission is to serve as a digital Repeater and to downlink donor submitted memes via UHF amateur band.
Description	Transmit and receive images and audio over amateur radio bands, serve as a repeater for the amateur radio community, and allow engagement with the satellite by anyone with an internet connection through a GUI hosted on letsgo2space.com, the website of MEMESat-1 non-profit client. MEMESat-1 will receive commands and payload uplinks from UGA?s ground station, downlink payload to the ground station, and serve as a repeater for the ham radio community. Let’s Go to Space, Inc.’s first satellite mission is the Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement, better known as MEMESat-1. This spacecraft will be a 2U amateur radio CubeSat. It’s primary mission is to serve as a digital Repeater and to downlink donor submitted memes via UHF amateur band. MEMESat serves to engage students in the aerospace field through the sharing of soon-to-be space-faring memes and to help fund small satellite-focused research.
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Last modified: 2023-12-02