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FUNcube

FUNcube-1 flight model - Image credit Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG

FUNcube-1 flight model – Image credit Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG

FUNcube was AMSAT-UK’s first CubeSat project designed to provide educational outreach for schools and colleges around the world and a two-way SSB/CW communications transponder for radio amateurs.

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