AMSAT Vice President of Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, has posted a video of the final day of RadFxSat live testing, where the satellite gets one more time in the sun and on the air to gather power and temperature data. In the video, Buxton secures the solar panel covers, conducts a pre-flight initialization, and packs it up for shipping to California for shock testing September 22-30.

After the shock test, the satellite will return to Fox Labs for post-shock testing to make sure nothing was damaged. Next, the CubeSat will go to Florida for vibration and heat-tolerance testing (“shake and bake”) then wait in Fox Labs for delivery and integration in January.

RadFxSat (Fox-1B) is scheduled to launch on March 16, 2017. — Thanks to AMSAT News Service