One of my favorite satellites VO-52, was not heard over Europe on 28Feb2012. Please listen for VO-52 and submit reports to the oscar.dcarr.org website. I8CVS also didn’t hear VO-52 on a later pass. Lets hope there isn’t something wrong with this great linear transponder Satellite.
This evening PI9ISS (André Kuipers) was active from the ISS space station. The signal was loud and clear but there were many stations that wanted to make a connection so for me this time it wasn’t possible to make a connection. During the pass at 19:30 CEST we will give it another try.
Downlink
145.800 MHz (FM)
Uplink
145.200 FM MHz (FM)
Preliminary TLE (Orbital Elements) for the upcoming VEGA launch
TLE-new 19-02-2012 12:00 UTC
ALMASAT-1 1 38078U 12006B 12049.33443324 .00018909 00000-0 55604-3 0 123 2 38078 69.4856 227.8040 0775179 38.1714 327.1743 14.04552460 692 2012-006C 1 38079U 12006C 12049.75727519 .00032984 00000-0 85788-3 0 159 2 38079 69.4840 226.8298 0780720 37.6598 327.6743 14.05826935 745 2012-006D 1 38080U 12006D 12049.68686761 .00031213 00000-0 83232-3 0 196 2 38080 69.4860 226.9842 0779364 37.6440 327.6296 14.05613316 732 2012-006E 1 38081U 12006E 12049.82923639 .00025595 00000-0 68592-3 0 177 2 38081 69.4839 226.6652 0779116 37.5252 327.7259 14.05593472 752 2012-006F 1 38082U 12006F 12049.75837023 .00023781 00000-0 63742-3 0 167 2 38082 69.4805 226.8323 0779435 37.5115 327.7743 14.05534126 743 2012-006G 1 38083U 12006G 12049.68698015 .00036831 00000-0 99391-3 0 165 2 38083 69.4810 226.9839 0778140 37.8349 327.4348 14.05605984 735 2012-006H 1 38084U 12006H 12049.68735371 .00027952 00000-0 76090-3 0 135 2 38084 69.4877 226.9866 0778137 37.7314 327.5265 14.05465744 733 2012-006J 1 38085U 12006J 12049.68741246 .00029832 00000-0 81206-3 0 105 2 38085 69.4808 226.9854 0778135 37.7482 327.5230 14.05456796 738
Preliminary TLE
XATCOBEO 1 00002U 12006B 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 31967-3 0 16 2 00002 69.4857 238.7662 0796847 45.0971 191.9357 14.06476807 13 ESTAR 1 00003U 12006C 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 28115-3 0 18 2 00003 69.4857 238.7662 0796159 45.0883 191.9444 14.06339990 10 GOLIAT 1 00004U 12006D 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 26912-3 0 12 2 00004 69.4857 238.7662 0795841 45.0842 191.9484 14.06276813 11 ROBUSTA 1 00005U 12006E 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 31201-3 0 10 2 00005 69.4856 238.7662 0796758 45.0912 191.9422 14.06456720 16 MASAT 1 00006U 12006F 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 28115-3 0 11 2 00006 69.4856 238.7662 0796254 45.0851 191.9481 14.06356736 11 PW-SAT 1 00007U 12006G 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 26588-3 0 14 2 00007 69.4856 238.7662 0796068 45.0829 191.9503 14.06319864 16 UNICUBESAT 1 00008U 12006H 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 31967-3 0 12 2 00008 69.4856 238.7662 0796936 45.0885 191.9454 14.06489697 10 ALMASat-1 1 00009U 12006I 12044.46627998 .00000000 00000-0 12728-3 0 17 2 00009 69.4857 238.7662 0792733 45.0462 191.9858 14.05660435 12
MASAT-1 designated MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 (MO-72)
OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO reports, “Congratulations on the successful launch of the MaSat-1 Cubesat that the team at Budapest University of Technology and Economics have been responsible for designing, building and testing.
“Since you have met all of the requirements for being issued an OSCAR number, including coordination through IARU and requesting an OSCAR number, I, under authority vested in me by the President of AMSAT-NA, do hereby name MaSat-1 as MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 or MO-72.” Bill concludes, “I, and all at AMSAT-NA wish MagyarSat-OSCAR-72 great success in fulfilling all of its mission objectives.”
[PE0SAT thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO for the above information]
Vega is launched successful and Satellite Signals are Heard.
The first Vega, flight VV01, lifted off at 1000 UT from the ESA Spaceport at Kourou in the Caribbean carrying eight student built amateur radio satellites and the LARES Laser Relativity Satellite into orbit.
At 1153 UT Drew Glasbrenner KO4MA reported hearing signals from the satellites as they went past Florida. Signals were first heard in the United Kingdom at around 1208 UT.
In Germany Mike Rupprecht DK3WN copied the satellites at an elevation of just 3 degress at 1209 UT, see his Satblog
A recording of PW-Sat made by Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG can be heard at this link
Watch the launch of Vega VV01
Project ELaNa, NASA’s “Educational Launch of NanoSat” managed by the Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center, announced on February 10 that the AMSAT Fox-1 cubesat has been selected to join the program. AMSAT will work with NASA in a collaborative agreement where NASA will cover the integration and launch costs of satellites deemed to have merit in support of their strategic and educational goals.
AMSAT teamed with the ARRL to write and deliver the 159 page educational proposal to NASA. Letters documenting the importance of AMSAT’s satellites in the education programs at the ARRL and also at the Clay Center for Science and Technology at the Dexter and Southfield schools in Brookline, MA, were important parts of our proposal.
AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW said, “The ELaNA Launch opportunities during 2013-2014 marks AMSAT’s return to space after the conclusion of the successful ARISSat-1/KEDR flight. We need to get the flight Fox-1, along with an operational flight backup satellite, built, integrated, tested, and delivered. Our ability to provide a spacecraft and get it launched is dependent upon the active support of our donors who wish to see Fox-1 fly.”
[PE0SAT thanks www.amsat.org for the above information]