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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: NEW CUBESATS NOW ON-ORBIT
What might best be called a flotilla of new cubesats
operating in the ham radio bands are now on-orbit. Amateur
Radio Newsline's George Bowen, W2XBS, has the details:
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The long awaited launch of a number of new ham radio
cubesats has finally taken place. The group of tiny birds
winged their way to Earth orbit on September 13th on board a
The Atlas 5 launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California.
The launch carried a satellite for the National
Reconnaissance Office. Also aboard this flight at four
cubesats as part of NASA's Educational Launch of
Nanosatellites mission and seven cubesats for government
use. The non government mini-birds include the Cubesat for
Ion, Neutral, Electron, Magnetic fields that downlinks its
science telemetry is in 2200 to 2300 MHz range.
Also now on-orbit is the Colorado Student Space Weather
Experiment that can be heard on 437.345 MHz transmitting 9k6
modulation in AX.25 protocol. Another is CP5 also known as
PolySat with its downlink at 437.405 MHz at 1 watt, AFSK on
Lower Sideband in AX.25 protocol. Rounding out the set is
XBN which is a Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite with
its downlink 437.525 MHz running G-F-S-K also in AX.25
protocol.
Several hours after launch Justin Foley, KI6EPH, announced
via the Cubesat Internet Rely Channel that all of the
microsats had been successfully deployed. A detailed
article of the launch can be found on-line at
tinyurl.com/microsats-to-orbit.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm George Bowen, W2XBS,
monitoring the sky at the North East Bureau in Albany New
York.
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A detailed article on the payloads of this mission and the
reason for the launch delays can be found on-line at
tinyurl.com/multi-microsat-launch. (ANS)
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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: FIVE CUBSATS TO GO ON-ORBIT FROM ISS
The long awaited deployment of five CubeSats from the
International Space Station will take place on Thursday,
September 27. Four of the micro sized birds carry amateur
radio payloads. These are identified as F-1, FITSAT-1, WE-
WISH and TechEdSat. More about this microsat project is on-
line at tinyurl.com/iss-micro-birds. (AMSAT-UK)
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