SSETI Express – just four weeks left until lift off
The launch date of September 27th and a lift-off time of 06:52:26 UTC now looks pretty certain for the Cosmos 3 rocket carrying SSETI Express with its three cubesat passengers and four other satellites into orbit.
Updated pre-launch keps will be made available in a few days time and there are a number of webpages being developed to enable amateurs to locate SSETI Express, receive and download the telemetry and to forward it to Mission Control for their evaluation. Later in the mission it will also be possible for amateurs to transmit so-called friendly commands to request particular telemetry or thumbnail pictures.
Obviously we also expect to be able to use the receiver part of the onboard 70cms transceiver and the S band transmitter as a single channel FM U/S transponder!.
Klla: amsat