Category: Ham Satellite news

Vår enkätundersökning som ska vara aktiv under hela Maj har redan fått in
ett stort antal svar med många intressanta åsikter.
Vi är tacksamma för alla som tar sig tid att svara. Svaren i enkäten kommer
att vara arbetsmaterial för kommande styrelsemöte och framtida inriktning på
Amsat SM. (Vi ser positivt på framtiden)

*Mer frekvensutrymme för satelliter

http://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/30/iaru-region-1-agrees-addition-2m-satellite-allocation/

*Dyrare flygbiljett till ISS

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_05_01_2013_p01-02-575108.xml

*VO-52 fyller 8 år.

Dear Friends,
It gives us great and immense pleasure to say that ‘HAMSAT VO-52’
completes eight fruitful years in orbit contributing to the wonderful
cause of ‘Amateur Radio Satellite Communication’.

The overall health parameters are excellent and we do hope that
transponder(s) on-board ‘HAMSAT VO-52’ would continue to render good
services for many more years to come.

On this joyous occasion,on behalf of everyone here in ISRO/India and
on my personal behalf, I thank each and every user, contributors and
well wishers for this great achievement.

Special thanks to Guru VU2GUR, Nitin VU3TYG, Partha VU2GPS,Sunil
VU2UKR,Bob W7LRD, Trevor M5AKA and others for sending in their reports
and suggestions for the possible HAMSAT 2.

73 es good wishes de

Mani, VU2WMY
Secretary & Station-In-Charge
Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC
ISRO Satellite Centre
HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017.
Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192
Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456
E-mail ID: wmy@isac.gov.in
vu2wmy_mani@yahoo.com
isrohams@yahoo.com

*ESA uppskjutning framflyttad.

Lördagens uppskjutning från Kourou gick ej att genomföra på grund av dåligt
väder. Nytt datum ej bestämt.

Vi hörs nästa Söndag. 73 Håkan SM7WSJ

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Ny satellit uppe med 145/435 transponder

Post author By SM0TGU
Post date 2013-04-30
1 Comment on Ny satellit uppe med 145/435 transponder

Nyhet från Trevor M5AKA:
TURKSAT-3USAT has a Mode J (145/435 MHz) linear transponder for SSB/CW communications and CubeBug-1 has a packet radio digipeater, see
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/26/ham-radio-cubesats-successfully-launched/
73 Trevor M5AKA

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Estcube

Post author By sm7wsj
Post date 2013-04-28
No Comments on Estcube

Vårt grannland i öst har byggt en cubesat med flera små trevliga finesser.

För att sätta sig in lite mer i satelliten. http://www.estcube.eu/en/mission/what-is-estcube-1

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AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 21/4 2013

Post author By SM0TGU
Post date 2013-04-23
No Comments on AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 21/4 2013

Hej!

Amsatnätet

SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

*Phonesat (snart uppe i rymden)
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/04/orbital-antares-debut-launch-attempt/

http://www.phonesat.org/

*OSSI-1 (satellit med LED morse nu i rymden)

OSSI??
1 39137U 13015H 13109.61683023 .00218796 18651-4 10338-2 0 37
2 39137 064.9052 032.9523 0221255 060.5813 013.8697 15.55037421 35

http://amsat-uk.org:80/2013/04/19/ossi-1-amateur-radio-cubesat-launched/

*Mycket rymdaktiviteter på gång

Satellite Downlink Mode
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OSSI-1 145.980/437.525 CW/1200bps (Amateur Band)
SOMP 437.485 1200, 9600bps BPSK (Amateur Band)
BEESAT-2/3 435.950 4800bps GMSK/Mobitex (Amateur Band)
Bion-M1 Biological research satellites
AIST Measurement of the Earth’s geomagnetic field
435 MHz downlink/145 MHz command & control uplink
Dove-2 Commercial technology demonstration mission
450 MHz band downlink

Additional information and photos can be viewed on the AMSAT-UK web:
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/17/soyuz-cubesat-launch/

This page includes additional information on the planned deployment
of the cubesats from the P-POD canisters: “Unusually the CubeSats
will not be deployed straight after launch. All four CubeSats:
OSSI-1, BEESAT-3, SOMP, and BEESAT-2 will be deployed around 10:45
UTC on Sunday, April 21. Until then orbital maneuvers will be car-
ried out to achieve a circular orbit at 575 km altitude.”

OSSI-1 Deployed on April 19
—————————
145.980 MHz CW, 437.525 MHz 1k2

OSSI-1, the Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite is a cubesat
developed by Hojun Song DS1SBO. In addition to the radio beacons
OSSI-1 also carries a 44 watt LED optical beacon to flash Morse Code
messages to observers on Earth.

The development of the satellite has been documented on the Open
Source Satellite Initiative Blog http://opensat.cc/blog/ and the
Wiki http://opensat.cc/wiki/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOL0zSY6cg
AMSAT-UK coverage can be read at:
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/19/ossi-1-amateur-radio-cubesat-launched/

BEESAT 3, BEESAT 2, SOMP, AIST and Dove-2 are expected to be separat-
ed from BION M1 in two batches on Sunday, April 21.

SOMP
—-
Downlink on 437.485 MHz including CW, 1k2 and 9k6 BPSK, AX25 FSK,
and AO40 standard 400bit/s BPSK

The Student Oxygen Measurement Project (SOMP) is a cubesat devel-
oped by students of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany,
organized in the Students’ Research Group for Spacecraft Engineer-
ing in Dresden (STARD). SOMP will be a standard sized single CubeSat
with one payload side and five sides with two solar cells each.

http://phpweb.tu-dresden.de/stard/SOMP/?lang=en
http://tinyurl.com/SOMP-AMSAT-UK-Posting

BEESAT-2/3 (Berlin Experimental and Educational Satellite)
435.950 MHz, 4k8 GMSK (both satellites)

BEESAT-2 is a cubesat-sized vehicle carries a technology experiment
using gyros and sensors for precise orientation.

BEESat-3 is another cubesat-sized vehicle that will test high-speed
data links (up to 1MB/s).

http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/beesat/

The above cubesat missions and the scientific/commercial missions
are also documented on Mineo Wakita’s (JE9PEL) web page at:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ossisomp.htm

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL for the above infor-
mation]

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