MEMEsat-1 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft name	MEMEsat-1 (Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	2U
Status	not launched, expected in 2025
Launcher	not launched
Entity name	University of Georgia
Institution	University
Entity type	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: 2024-09-02