CAPE-2
Mission
CAPE is a completely nonprofit and student run organization which develops and builds Pico satellites along with a host of other aerospace and mission related systems such as weather balloons and sensor buoys. Our facilities are provided by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The goal of this project is to give students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette the opportunity to research, design, develop, and maintain a low earth orbiting satellite.
Orbital parameters
Name CAPE-2 NORAD 39282 COSPAR designation 2013-064-C Inclination (degree) 40.488 RAAN 186.685 Eccentricity 0.0020782 ARGP 266.900 Orbit per day 15.66718468 Period 1h 31m 54s (91.90 min) Semi-major axis 6 746 km Perigee x apogee 354 x 382 km Drag factor 0.002845800 1/ER Mean Anomaly 92.878
Downlink
145.825 MHz and 437.325 MHz FM FSK beacon will be in AX.25 and CW
Uplink
145.825 MHz and 437.325 MHz FM FSK beacon will be in AX.25 and CW
Callsign
TLE
CAPE-2 1 99905U 00000 13323.95403993 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0009 2 99905 40.5214 208.6139 0003075 205.2431 337.9664 15.19728651000004
Telemetry
Status
Decayed October 24th, 2014. Launched and active. Expected to be launched with Minotaur 1 ORS-3 at November 20th 00:30 UTC 2013.
The CAPE-2 team has requested the Amateur Radio community to listen for our sat and send reports to them at quadpugh <at> bellsouth.net, include your location and time you first hear our sat.
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