AMSAT-DL New Projects


Phase 5A - A Mars Orbiter Mission!
AO-40 spaceframe and propulsion system
single 2 meter dish antenna on spacecraft
coherent transponder (200 / 5 bits/sec, coded)
hitchhiker experiments
launch on Ariane 5

Phase 3E - Technology Validation Mission	
orbit AO-40 was intended to inhabit
same spaceframe as used by AO-10 and AO-13
launch on Ariane 5 using SBS + adapter

P5A pic page 8 of ~/amsat/p5a/2002.10.02/p5a-to-mars.pdf