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AMSAT P5A (Phase 5A, Go-Mars)
AMSAT P5A [AMSAT]
AMSAT P5A (also known as Phase 5A or Go-Mars) was a proposed Mars mission by the AMSAT-DL radio amateus
The spacecraft was to be built based on the AMSAT P3D satellite. It was also to deploy a balloon from the "Mars Society Deutschland" onto Mars and P5-A was then to be used as communication satellite to forward data signals from Mars to Earth. Some of the techniques required for this purpose were to be tested on AMSAT-DL's new satellite AMSAT P3-E which was to launch in 2005, but has since been deferred due to launch costs.
The AMSAT P5A project has been put on hold, when DLR rejected further support of the mission in 2012.
| Nation: | Germany |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Mars orbiter, amateur radio communication |
| Operator: | AMSAT-DL |
| Contractors: | AMSAT-DL |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | hexagonal prism |
| Propulsion: | S400 |
| Power: | 6 deployable fixed solar arrays, body mounted solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 650 kg |
| Orbit: | solar orbit, later Martian orbit |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMSAT P5A (Phase 5A) | - | cancelled | with ? |
Further AMSAT missions:
- AMSAT P2A (Phase 2A, AO 6, OSCAR 6)
- AMSAT P2B (Phase 2B, AO 7, OSCAR 7)
- AMSAT P2D (Phase 2D, AO 8, OSCAR 8)
- AMSAT P3A, P3B, P3C, P3E (Phase 3A, 3B, 3C, 3E / AO 10, 13 / OSCAR 10, 13)
- AMSAT P3D (Phase 3D, AO 40, OSCAR 40)
- AMSAT P4A (Phase 4A, QO 100, Qatar-OSCAR 100)
- AMSAT P4B (Phase 4B)
- AMSAT P5A (Phase 5A / Go-Mars)
- AMSAT Echo (AMSAT E, AO 51)
- Fox 1A (AO 85, AMSAT-OSCAR 85)
- Fox 1B (RadFxSat, AO 91, AMSAT-OSCAR 91)
- Fox 1C (Fox 1Cliff, AO 95, AMSAT-OSCAR 95)
- Fox 1D (AO 92, AMSAT-OSCAR 92)
- Fox 1E (RadFxSat 2)
- GOLF 1
- GOLF-TEE
