AMSAT Organizations Worldwide
From its first launch, AMSAT projects have had international scope. As of 2006, 21 countries have launched an amateur satellite. Many of these countries have their own AMSAT affiliate, some of which are noted below:
- AMSAT Germany (AMSAT-DL, AMSAT Deutschland) has built and managed projects of several amateur radio satellites, notably AO-40.
- AMSAT Japan (JAMSAT) has contributed to many satellites, in addition to launching its own satellites in cooperation with JAXA: the Fuji-OSCAR series.
- AMSAT India (AMSAT-IN) launched its first amateur satellite, VUSat-OSCAR 52 in 2005 aboard an ISRO PSLV rocket from Sriharikota, India.
- AMSAT United Kingdom (AMSAT-UK) is building and launching FUNcube, an Amateur CubeSat
- AMSAT Italia (AMSAT-I) is building HAMTV payload for International Space Station
- AMSAT-CT Portuguese AMSAT-CT is develop and building the prototype of the satellite CAMOESat-1 and the ISTnanoSat-1 in partnership with the IST-Tagus the Technical University of Lisbon. Is member of the CubeSat project QB50 and the GENSO ground station network with the participation of the CS5CEP - Centro Espacial Português (Portuguese Space Centre) was created and installed by AMRAD (AMSAT-CT) during 2003 in the IST –Taguspark, the Campus of the Instituto Suoerior Tecnico - Technical University of Lisbon (IST-TUL) at the Science and Technology Park in Oeiras.
- AMSAT-NL Netherlands
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