The Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5-A features in a video recently added to YouTube.

P5-A will be the first spacecraft built by Radio Amateurs to go to the Red planet, indeed it is the first ever private interplanetary spacecraft.

It will use frequencies in the Amateur Satellite Service allocations at 2.4 and 10 GHz. When it gets to Mars the signal from the spacecraft will be very weak. This clearly illustrates the need for the both the Amateur Radio and Amateur Satellite Services to have access to Low Noise Floor allocations in the microwave spectrum so they can carry out weak signal experimentation.

Video - With AMSAT P5-A to MARS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIJ548EyUME

Billingual Mars Orbiter P5-A website
http://www.amsat-dl.org/p5a/

Ticket To Mars
http://ticket-to-mars.org/ 

Join AMSAT-UK online see https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subscription/