First-MOVE team members with Bob Twiggs KE6QMD
First-MOVE is an amateur radio CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
MOVE stands for München Orbital Verification Experiment. The 1U CubeSat carries a CCD camera and has two deployable solar panels carrying a new generation of solar cell – triple junction GaAs / Ge.
The transceiver, supplied by ISIS, uses a UHF uplink and VHF downlink. The antennas are mounted on the ends of the deployable solar panels.
The frequencies for First-MOVE were coordinated by the IARU as:
Downlink: 145.970 MHz
Uplink: 435.520 MHz
This video shows First-MOVE preliminary vacuum test at the LRT facilities. The EQM model was tested in vacuum conditions and at medium/low temperatures (10°C).
Watch First-MOVE Vacuum Test
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbupk3O9b8k]
First-MOVE Vibration tests http://www.uk.amsat.org/6271
First-MOVE CubeSat Solar Panel Deployment Video http://www.uk.amsat.org/6199
First-MOVE website in Google English http://tinyurl.com/First-MOVE-CubeSat
First-MOVE Communications http://tinyurl.com/First-MOVE-Communications