Amateur Community Needed to Assist Japanese Amateur Interplanetary Satellite
An informal network of ham radio experimenters, scientists and CW enthusiasts called FlyVenusCom — a nonprofit, cross-cultural effort — has been created to support communication efforts by Japanese scientists with its CubeSat Venus probe, UNITEC-1.
UNITEC-1 was developed by 20 universities of the University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC), the Japanese community developing nano-satellite…