Emergency Communication Satellite Spacecraft

Satellite name	Emergency Communication Satellite
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	2U
Status	not launched, expected in 2025
Launcher	Falcon 9, (Transporter-14)
Entity name	Good Ancestor Foundation
Institution	Non-profit
Entity	Government (Civil / Military)
Country	US
Manufacturer	AIVT by ?
Operator	?
Oneliner	An emergency satellite to transmit information to regular cell phones on response intervention.
Description	Humanitarian low-cost open source satellite based communication system. In collaboration with Good Ancestors (US), build and launch an emergency satellite to transmit information to regular cell phones on response interventions for a catastrophe that disables comms infrastructure (~$300k). In a scenario such as widespread nuclear EMPs, this technology could be fundamental for distributing information on how to provide basic food and water needs to the population. Good news, we have already built the first 2u test satellite, and paid for the launch, that came in at about $230k (hardware and launch). Obviously there's a lot of free/unaccounted labor in there, and some choices that we would not make on the production units, which would be more in the $500k range most ideally. These have LoRA radios, SDR, VHF, etc
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Last modified: 2024-12-29