Fljande information har kommit om nya satelliten frn AMSAT i USA, Oscar Echo:
AMSAT-North America has announced that launch of the AMSAT OSCAR-E Amateur Radio microsat–the Echo Project — is scheduled to launch March 31, 2004. Earlier plans had called for a May 2004 launch. Echo Project Team member Richard Hambly, W2GPS, reported at AMSAT-NA s Annual Meeting and Space Symposium October 18-19 in Toronto, Canada, that the Echo project has made significant progress in recent months.
A Russian Dnepr LV rocket–a converted SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile–will carry the approximately 10-inch-square satellite into a low-Earth orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Echo Project Team member Richard Hambly, W2GPS, reported that the project team powered up the Echo flight hardware in late summer in a flat-sat configuration at SpaceQuest. Data communications, command and control, and attitude control subsystems were tested, in addition to the radio equipment, power systems and cabling.
The satellite will incorporate two UHF transmitters, each running from 1 to 8 W and capable of simultaneous operation, four VHF receivers and a multiband, multimode receiver capable of operation on the 10 meter, 2 meter, 70 cm and 23 cm bands. Echo will feature V/U, L/S and HF/U operational configurations, with V/S, L/U and HF/S also possible. FM voice and various digital modes–including PSK31 on a 10-meter SSB uplink–also will be available.
[ANS thanks Dave Hassler, K7CCC, for the above information.]
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