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DNepr Launch 06-11-2014

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dneprToday November 6 at 07:35:49 UTC a Dnepr rocket carrying the primary payload Asnaro-1 and four microsatellites was launched from Dombarovsky near Yasny. Kosmotras report all spacecraft have been inserted into their target orbits.

  • ChubuSat-1 (Kinshachi-1) 437.485 MHz
  • Tsubame 437.505 and 437.275 MHz
  • Hodoyoshi-1 467.674 MHz
  • QSAT-EOS (Tsukushi) an AX.25 GMSK payload has been reported but the frequency is unknown.

Kosmotras announcement can be found at: http://www.kosmotras.ru/en/news/155/

TSUBAME
1 99998U          14310.32625444  .00000779  00000-0  51437-4 0 00004
2 99998 097.4574 029.7895 0049163 177.7821 352.1497 15.06489506000015

Source: Amsat-UK, eoPortal and R4UAB

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.

Preliminary TLE VEGA launch

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Preliminary TLE (Orbital Elements) for the upcoming VEGA launch

Cubesats Frequentie Spectrum 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

Successful Vega Launch

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Vega is launched successful and Satellite Signals are Heard.

Vega First LaunchThe 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

Student CubeSats Ready For Flight

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Vega Artist ImpressionThe first student built amateur radio CubeSats to be sponsored by ESA’s Education Office have passed their Final Acceptance Review and have been declared ready for launch on board the maiden flight of Vega, the new ESA launcher.

The launch window for this historic lift-off opens on 26 January and ends in the first week of February 2012.

The seven university-built picosatellites, each weighing only 1 kilogram, were integrated with the devices that will carry them during launch – the P-PODs, or Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployers – between late October and mid November. Before they could be cleared for launch, they had to pass a detailed technical examination known as the Final Acceptance Review.

The single-unit CubeSats, whose development represented a highly valuable, if not unique hands-on learning experience for the university students that were involved – were developed by teams from 6 different European countries:

  • Xatcobeo (a collaboration of the University of Vigo and INTA, Spain)
  • Robusta (University of Montpellier 2, France)
  • E-St@r (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
  • Goliat (University of Bucharest, Romania)
  • PW-Sat (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
  • MaSat-1 (Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Hungary)
  • UniCubeSat GG (Universitá di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy)
  • As well as the CubeSats Vega will also carry the Amateur Radio microsatellite ALMASat-1

Frequencies and links for the satellites can be found in the following article from JE9PEL.

Read the article of the full ESA story.