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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.

BeeSAT-2 and SOMP deployed and active

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The two satellites BeeSAT-2 and SOMP are successfully deployed and are active the first CW and DATA signals are received. I myself was able to receive these satellites during the pass at 15:02 CEST / 13:02 UTC on April 21, 2013. Congratulations TU Dresden (SOMP) and TU Berlin (BeeSAT).

SOMP:

dp0tud
high speed CW
dp0tud ajhxevaqail 
high speed CW
dp0tud ajhxbvaqa e

BeeSAT-2:

RAW CW Data

dp0bef dp0bef dp0bef

RAW GMSK Date:

First BeeSAT-2 GMSK DATA

The following TLE was used to receive the two satellites.

BEESAT-2
1 99999U BEESAT-2 13111.50000000 -.00000022  00000-0 -18943-5 0 00009
2 99999 065.0052 026.5594 0011818 218.6713 261.0081 14.97601851000171
BEESAT-3
1 99998U BEESAT-3 13111.50000000 -.00000022  00000-0 -18943-5 0 00009
2 99998 065.0052 026.5594 0011818 218.6713 261.0081 14.97601851000170

[PE0SAT Thanks DK3WN for the additional information]