25日在qrz.com上看到业余通讯卫星的消息：
china plans amateur radio satellite launch
a report has been received via michael chen, bd5rv/4 that a new amateur radio satellite to be launched by china, cas-1, has completed its iaru frequency coordination and the hardware has been finished.
the payload is planned to include a cw telemetry beacon, linear transponder, fm repeater and a digital store-forward transponder. the operations will use 70cms downlinks and 2 meter uplinks at 500mw output power.
the satellite is expected to have a mass of 30kgs and be launched from china into a sun syncronous orbit with a 670km apogee.
the cas-1 team is waiting for another payload to be finished before launch which at this point is predicted to happen in early 2009.
