Category: Ham Satellite news

Idag skjuts en kommersiell amerikansk raket upp till ISS med reservdelar. AMSAT-SMs f.d. ordförande (sedan ett antal år tillbaka) Sven Grahn ger kommentarer i SVTs rapport. Se mer på:

http://www.svtplay.se/video/2178444/rapport  (endast under 7 dagar)

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/vetenskap/ryska-delar-i-amerikansk-privatraket

Nu har UKube-1 planerad uppskjutningsdag satt till den 8:e juli. Satelliten har många amatörradio-payloads ombord som bygger på succen med FUNcube. Läs mer:

UKube-1 is scheduled to launch from Pad 31/6 at Baikonur on Tuesday afternoon. July 8th 2014 @ 15:58:28 UTC and to be deployed from the final stage of the Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M launch vehicle at 18:32:42 UTC.

And this is accompanied by a spreadsheet showing the anticipated UK passes for the first orbits together with a worksheet showing the telemetry equations.

UKube-1 carries a number of experiments and payloads and also the FUNcube-2 transponder and telemetry sub-system. This is intended to support the current, very successful operations of FUNcube-1 and to provide an even better operational capability for schools and colleges to use for hands on educational outreach around the world. Further details of the educational outreach opportunities are available here http://funcube.org.uk/education-outreach/

When the FUNcube-2 sub-system is activated, the 1k2 BPSK telemetry will be downlinked on 145.915 MHz in the same way as already happens with FUNcube-1.

Mer info: http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/03/ukube-1-launch-information/

A new FUNcube-2 Dashboard UI will be released shortly. This will integrate directly with the existing FUNcube Central Data Warehouse and existing usernames and authorisation codes can be re-used.

When the transponder is activated, the downlink passband will be 145.930 to 145.950 MHz and the uplink passband will be 435.080 to 435.060 MHz.

It is anticipated that the FUNcube sub-system may be tested for short periods during the next few weeks depending upon how the LEOP plan progresses.

AMSAT-UK personnel will be supporting the UKube-1 operations team at Chilbolton during the immediate post launch period and will be ensuring that regular status reports are made available via IRC and other channels.

AMSAT UK and their colleagues at AMSAT-NL are delighted that UKube-1 is carrying this FUNcube sub-system and wish every success to the UKube Operations Team and to all the many contributors to the project.

Nu har vi ytterligare två Oscar-satelliter. QB50p1 och QB50p2 har nu fått namnen EO-79 and EO-80. Läs mer:

OSCAR Numbers Assigned for CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2

In an email to Mr. Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG, AMSAT-NL and Mr. Jeroen
Rotteveel, ISIS CEO, OSCAR Number Administrator William A. (Bill)
Tynan, W3XO, announced,
“I have received your request for OSCAR Numbers for CubeSats QB50p1
and QB50p2 and from everything I can determine these spacecraft meet
all of the requirements necessary to receive OSCAR numbers.

“Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President,
I hereby confer the designation European OSCAR 79 to CubeSats QB50p1
and European OSCAR 80 to CubeSat CubeSats QB50p2. These designations
can, of course, for convenience be shortened to EO-79 and EO-80.

I, and the entire amateur satellite community, hope for successful
missions for both EO-79 and EO-80 and congratulate AMSAT-NL and the
ISIS team as well as all who contributed to these new Amateur Radio
satellites for their success in building, testing and launching these
new OSCARs.”

[ANS Thanks Bill W3XO and AMSAT-NA for the above information]

Den 19 juni 2014 skickades 37 satelliter upp från Dombarovsky i Ryssland varav 12 av dessa har amatörradio ombord. Dessa har bla. möjlighet till SSB/CW linjär transponder, FM voice transponder, D-STAR Parrot Repeater och Packet Radio Digipeaters.

Lite mer info om QB-satelliterna som har FUNcube payloads ombord:

QB50p1
• 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry
• Transponder
– 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB
– 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB

QB50p2
• 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry
• 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25

Här en utmärkt frekvenskarta av Mike Rupprecht DK3WN

N8HM har på YouTube lagt upp ett QSO med SM7WSJ via FO-29:

Då har vi fått en ny satellit tilldelad med OSCAR-nummer, nämligen LituanicaSAT-1 som nu även får kallas LO-78 OSCAR-78:

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 159.02
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
June 8, 2014
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-159.02

OSCAR Number for LituanicaSAT-1

In a message to the LituanicaSAT-1 team, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number
Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO announced, “LituanicaSAT-1 has met all
of the requirements for an OSCAR number. My findings from information
provided to AMSAT-NA and IARU officials confirm this to be true.
Accordingly, under the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA
President, I do hereby assign LituanicaSAT-1 the designation
LituanicaSAT OSCAR-78, or LO-78. I, and all of the amateur radio
satellite community, wish LituanicaSAT OSCAR-78 a long and successful
mission.”

On behalf of the LituanicaSAT-1 team, Simon Kareiva, LY2EN replied,
“It is my honor and pleasure to accept this assignation. Our team is
focused to keep LO-78 operational for the benefit of amateur radio as
long, as it is possible for a small cubesat. Thank you very much,
Simon LY2EN.”

The LituanicaSAT-1 team has announced activation of the FM
transponder. A general rule to find out if the transponder is working
at the moment is to monitor the beacon frequency on 437.275 MHz. If
you can hear CW FM beacon it means that the transponder is off, if you
cannot hear it –  the transponder is on. The transponder frequencies
are approximately 435.1755 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift) for the
downlink and 145.950 MHz for the uplink with 67 Hz CTCSS.

[ANS thanks Bill Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Administrator for
the above information]