Re-post from ANS-175
The University of Maine’s MESAT-1 carrying a telemetry transmitter and linear transponder provided by AMSAT and experiments designed by schools in Maine will head into orbit as early as late this week as part of NASA’s ELaNa 43 launch.
The ELaNa 43 (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 43) mission includes eight CubeSats flying on Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket for its “Noise of Summer” launch from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The 30-minute launch window will open at 9 p.m. PDT Wednesday, June 26 (12 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 27).
Telemetry can be received using the same FoxTelem program that was used for most of AMSAT’s recent payloads. We urge readers to download the latest FoxTelem (V1.12z3) from https://www.amsat.org/tlm/leaderboard.php?id=0&db=FOXDB. This program will decode telemetry from MESAT-1 (as well as AO-91) and forward the results to AMSAT’s central server for use by AMSAT engineering as well as by Maine engineers and students.
MESAT-1 will study local temperatures across city and rural areas to determine phytoplankton concentration in bodies of water to help predict algal blooms and also contains a linear transponder for amateurs to use. Watch ANS and other media for information about when the transponder will be activated.
For more information on this satellite, visit https://www.mainesat.org/mesat1/
| MESAT-1 – Launch June 27, 2024 | |||
| Uplink LSB | 145.910 MHz | through | 145.940 MHz |
| Downlink USB | 435.810 MHz | through | 435.840 MHz |
| AMSAT LTM-1 Transponder – 1200 bps FoxTelem BPSK beacon 435.800 MHz | |||
[ANS thanks NASA and AMSAT Engineering for the above information]