SOESAT Low Cost Telemetry Ground Station

The School Of Engineering SATellite (SOESAT) will be fabricated and donated by American-Microsat Inc. of Sunnyvale, California. SOESAT will carry a radiation sensor that will measure the secondary emission internal to the satellite caused by the impinging of external primary radiation. At the time of this abstract SOESAT has not been manifested on a launch vehicle. A fourth quarter '92 launch into a geotransfer orbit on a European Space Agency Ariane is being investigated. Low earth orbit launch alternatives on various boosters are also being investigated. Command and control of SOESAT will be accomplished using the telemetry ground station built and operated on site at San Jose State University. The total cost of this system is less than $8000.