QuakeSat,
launched in 2003, uses "an innovative space based
technique to search for the emission of Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) magnetic signals, which have shown to
be an earthquake precursor phenomenon." The project
is a spinoff of a nanosat
program at Stanford University. The Quakefinder
project uses data from QuakeSat sensors and other sources
to study if earthquakes can be predicted. The spacecraft
was built according to the cubesat
standard now used by many nanosat projects.
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The German
chapter of the AMSAT
amateur satellite community is leading a project that
will send a small spacecraft to Mars in 2009. It will
be of similar cost and complexity as the large AMSAT
P3-D
satellite launched in 2000. Info
in English.
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