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Launches in April

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Launches in April 2013

Date Launching Launch Vehicle – site
delayed
April 17, 2013		 Phonesat-1 and -2 Antares-110 – Wallops Flight Facility
Launched
April 19, 2013		 BeeSAT 2 and 3 Soyuz-2.1a – Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Launched
April 19, 2013		 OSSI-1 Soyuz-2.1a – Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Launched
April 19, 2013		 SOMP Soyuz-2.1a – Baikonur, Kazakhstan
delayed
April 20, 2013		 Phonesat-1 and -2 Antares-110 – Wallops Flight Facility
Launched
April 21, 2013		 Phonesat-1 and -2 Antares-110 – Wallops Flight Facility
Launched
April 26, 2013		 CubeBug-1 CZ-2D from the Jiuquan Space Center
Launched
April 26, 2013		 TURKSAT-3USAT CZ-2D from the Jiuquan Space Center

Phonesats

Downlink
437.425 MHz

Hello CubeSats and Amateur Radio Operators

The very first PhoneSat’s will be launching aboard the Antares on April 17th at 2100 GMT (launch window to April 19th possibly further). We have manifested 2x PhoneSat 1.0 and 1x PhoneSat 2.0 Beta.

Our orbit is very low (270km x 300km 51.6deg) and we’ll only be up there for 2 weeks! So we’re looking for as many people as possible to help with tracking our satellites. If any of you are interested in tracking the satellite please let myself (+the cc’d team) know – your help will be greatly appreciated!

All three satellites will be transmitting on 437.425MHz and TLE’s + more info can be found at www.phonesat.org . Feel free to tune-in and submit packets via www.phonesat.org.

The Cubesats are launched, deployed and active.

Phonesat Telemetry received

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Phonesat modelPhonesat Telemetry Received
April 22, 2013 13:20 UTC

Radio settings:

  • Call sign: KJ6KRW
  • Frequency: 437.425 MHz
  • Modulation: AX-25 AFSK
  • Data Rate: 1200 bps

If you want to decode the data that you receive, go to the www.phonesat.org site and use the online decoder. The data is in ASCII85 format.

Phonesat Reception 22-04-2013 14:55UTC

Here is a part of the data that I received:

RAW data:

1:Fm KJ6KRW To CQ Via TELEM  [15:17:30R]
charging812,0,0,0

RAW data: KJ6KRW-1

1:Fm KJ6KRW-1 To CQ Via TCPIP  [15:23:46R]
ÿ63$uc!<<*"$NL/4+ohTHT)\ik!#!lBpHWgp'17u:G!hH6a1\BVks$0O$GVq0)aTSd!5_,h!5TfYzzzzzzzz!,,q[Ci:G.Ec5e;FD,5.@<Q.%ÿ

Decoded data: KJ6KRW-1
PhoneSat-KJ6KRW-1 22-04-2013 13:20UTC

RAW data: KJ6KRW-2

1:Fm KJ6KRW-2 To CQ Via TELEM  [15:18:42R]
ÿ5l^lb!<<*"#ljr1N;rq`/H>bN!#!j*83h7os$Ma_0ggo;0tp"AjZcJL_`j`(W^1Y*!(!(S!(&Gkzzzzzzzz!,,q[Ci:G.Ec5e;FD,5.@<Q.%ÿ

Decoded data: KJ6KRW-2
PhoneSat KJ6KRW-2 22-04-2013 13:20UTC

I want to congratulate the team with the successful launch and deployment of the Phonesat Satellites.

Phonesats Launched

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Last night the Phonesats where launched with the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket.

Antares Launch 21-04-2013The primary goal of the Antares A-One mission is to deploy a test mass into low Earth Orbit that simulates the Cygnus spacecraft. But also onboard are the cubesats PhoneSat-1a, 1b & 2 and the Dove-1 cubesat.

PhoneSat satellites are emitting packets on the amateur radio spectrum to report different types of message, If you are an amateur radio operator and you can receive these packets, you have the great opportunity to contribute to the project by submitting them via our website.

TLE orbit information:

ALEXANDER
1 99998U          13111.88195151  .01749543  00000-0  14359-2 0 00009
2 99998 051.6264 310.4979 0014096 349.9961 159.2745 16.09737303000017
GRAHAM
1 99999U          13111.88195151  .01754085  00000-0  14353-2 0 00001
2 99999 051.6264 310.4979 0014219 349.7999 159.4707 16.09768452000013
BELL
1 99997U          13111.88195151  .01577416  00000-0  13157-2 0 00001
2 99997 051.6266 310.4981 0014267 350.0173 159.2536 16.09798779000011