Category Archives: Launch

Delta-2 launched

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The Delta-2 with on board four cubsats: FIREBIRD II-A & B, GRIFEX, ExoCube is finally launched from SLC-2W Vandenberg.

Delta-2 Launch

Grifex labGRIFEX public ground station software can be downloaded at: mxl-ops.engin.umich.edu
MXL Blog with the latest updates can be found at: Michigan Exploration Laboratory, GRIFEX operation

GRIFEX, the GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Performance Experiment, is a 3-Unit CubeSat that hosts an engineering experiment setting out to demonstrate an all-digital in-pixel high frame rate Read-Out Integrated Circuit developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Firebird-2 information: SSEL
EXOCube information: PolySat

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AESP-14 Deployment

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AESP-14-CubesatFirst Cubesat Developed in Brazil.

PY2SDR has confirmed the deployment of AESP-14 from the International Space Station at 14:30 UTC on Thursday, February 5.

The AESP-14 team would like to ask the help of the AMSAT community to forward any received telemetry frames back to the team. For this, please save the AX.25 frames in KISS format and forward the file to aesp14 (at) ita.br. Telemetry format can be found at this location: AESP14-Telemetry Format.

AESP-14 CubeSat
Frequency: 437.600 MHz 9k6 AX25

After launch we can use the TLE data from ISS.

Source: Amsat-BB

CubeSAT launch 29-01-2015

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Exocube CP-10CubeSat launch scheduled for Jan 29, 2015 14:20 UTC from Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex with a Delta-2 rocket.

Primary payload: Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) secondary payload: ELaNa-X (3 POD)

Firebird-II FU3         437.405 MHz 19k2 FSK
Firebird-II FU4	        437.230 MHz 19k2 FSK
GRIFEX                  437.485 MHz 9k6 FSK
Exocube (CP-10)         437.270 MHz 9k6 FSK

Preliminary TLE

EXOCUBE
1 99993U 00000    15029.59770833 -.00001134  00000-0 -64350-4 0 00004
2 99993 099.0736 036.6690 0163275 344.1705 144.7582 15.02264856000014
FIREBIRD-2
1 99991U 00000    15029.59770833 -.00001191  00000-0 -74412-4 0 00005
2 99991 099.0666 036.7936 0148155 343.1200 146.2345 15.00731451000019
GRIFEX
1 99992U 00000    15029.59770833 -.00000939  00000-0 -53803-4 0 00006
2 99992 099.0410 036.6726 0153788 343.4726 145.2471 15.03079548000011

Source: SatBLOG DK3WN