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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 has apparently put on hold.
| 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
