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R:071209/2131Z @:YT7MPB.#NS.YUG.EU #:47096 [Novi Sad] FBB7.00i $:ANS-343.05
R:071209/0341Z @:CX2SA.LAV.URY.SA #:22428 [Minas] FBB7.00e $:ANS-343.05
From: CX2SA@CX2SA.LAV.URY.SA
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 343.05
>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
December 9, 2007
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-343.05
Occasionally a question arises in regards to when the US Air Force
Academy's FalconSat-3 (FS3) might activate its Amateur Radio pay-
load. Jim White, WD0E recently answered this question for ANS.
Jim replied, "When the science mission is completed the Amateur Radio
payload will be activated. Once available to the amateur satellite
service the mode of operation of FS3 will be determined by the ham
club at the Air Force Academy. Like AO-51 it can be operated as an
FM repeater or in digital store and forward up to 78k8."
Jim continued, "At present there is no target date for completion of
the science mission. It depends on a number a factors and must balance
the mission objectives of an on-orbit learning resource and a plasma
data collection and mapping instrument."
In conclusion, "FS3 has been providing an excellent platform for
students learning space operations, attitude determination and control,
and power systems. The boom deployment sequence will probably be
attempted in the next couple of weeks. While some science data has
been collected, enough to show the instruments are working well,
continuous collection won't start until three axis control has
been established and practiced."
[ANS thanks Jim White, WD0E for the above information]
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