Category: Ham Satellite news

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73 from all members of AMSAT-SM

Det är många nya CubeSats på gång under 2013 vilket följande två bulletiner handlar om:
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UKube-1 to launch in June 2013

The Herald newspaper reports that the CubeSat UKube-1 will be
launched in June, 2013.

The spacecraft is being built for the UK Space Agency (UKSA) by
Clyde Space and the launch will take place from Baikonur in
Kazakhstan on a Soyuz-2 along with TechDemoSat-1.

The newspaper reports that Clyde Space has announced plans for a
base in the United States.

UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide an
amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 1200 bps BPSK
beacon for educational outreach

[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above information]
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Five new CubeSats hope for 2013 launch

Five new CubeSats being developed in Taiwan, Vietnam and the United
States are hoping to fly during 2013.

PACE is the first nanosatellite developed the National Cheng Kung
University (NCKU) of Taiwan and has the objective to provide a
platform for attitude control experiments in space.
More Information is available at
http://satellite.ncku.edu.tw/pace/en/home.htm

TARO is a 2U CubeSat developed by the National Cheng Kung University
(NCKU) of Taiwan. TARO is the precursor of PACE satellite which was
also developed by NCKU and has an objective to verify the function of
sensors and actuators which have been used at PACE.
More Information is available at
http://satellite.ncku.edu.tw/pace/en/home.htm

PicoDragon is a 1U CubeSat project intended to take low resolution
earth images and to test on board systems. Planning to use two UHF
transmitters. One 100mW CW beacon on 437.250 MHz and a 1k2 AFSK 800mW
AX25 telemetry downlink. Commands will be uplinked on VHF.
More Information is available at
http://vnsc.org.vn/

United States, Alabama – ChargerSat-1. The primary mission is to
perform a technology demonstration of gravity gradient stabilization,
improved solar collection and improved horizon communications on a
pico-satellite. This is the team’s first CubeSat and is a technology
demonstration of their capabilities as students
More Information is available at
http://space.uah.edu/

United States, California – SNAPS. This spacecraft has dimensions of
25x113x113mm, has a mass of less than 0.5kg and is intended to image
other CubeSats autonomously using H264 compression. The team is
proposing a UHF downlink using 9k6 AFSK and will utilize Carpcomm
ground stations.
Planned for a SpaceX flight from Vandenberg AFB in April 2013
together with POPACS.

[ANS thanks Trevor, M5AKA for the above  information]

The STRaND-1 smartphone CubeSat, built by volunteers in Guildford, UK, is due to launch from India at the end of February.

See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12529

The UKube-1 CubeSat that will carry a 435/145 MHz linear transponder built by AMSAT-UK is due to launch in June.

See http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12524

Five new CubeSats that hope to launch in 2013
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12514

73 Trevor M5AKA
AMSAT-UK http://www.amsat-uk.org/

Hej!

Dagens nät på 3740 KHz klockan 10.00

Deltagare

SM0DZL
SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

*ISS

Synlig på kvällarna just nu.

*Asteroid 2012 DA14

http://www.heavens-above.com/2012da14.aspx?lat=57.317&lng=13.833&loc=Br%e4nnehylte&alt=245&tz=CET

*FOX-1 (ersättaren till AO-51)

Fox-1 Main Computer Engineering Prototype Comes Alive

The Fox-1 development team is pleased to report that the first
engineering model of the satellite’s Integrated Housekeeping Unit
(IHU) has been built. Bdale Garbee, KB0G, performed the assembly
work, and he was able to load and run the operating system on
first power up on January 24, 2013.

Meanwhile, the software team is hard at work getting drivers and
features ready to fully test the hardware. They have committed to
a March delivery of software for IHU testing.

*Det verkar som våra Danska vänner får upp en satellit den 25/2

Se schema
http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php

Satellitens hemsida
http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat3/

PS: Spännande med AIS mottagare (Bör finnas mycket att lyssna på för den)

*15 M EME (om man saknar ett stort projekt att dra igång)

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2013-02/msg00082.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9fDlbIFhMs

*Funcube
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12613

*STRaND-1 (den första smarta telefonen i rymden)
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12600

Vi hörs nästa söndag.

mvh Håkan SM7WSJ

Hej!

Dagens deltagare.

SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

Punkter

*Information om årsmöte har gått ut på nätet

*Asteroid
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/28jan_2012da/

*STRaND-1
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12431

*February 14 PSLV-C20 Launch Planned by India

India’s “The Hindu” newspaper reports that the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) has slated its first launch of the year PSLV-CA
(PSLV-C20) for February 14. This launch includes the SARAL ocean
study spacecraft and satellites carrying amateur radio payloads.

The payload includes:

+ SARAL – Ka-band radar altimeter operating at 35.75 GHz.
See: http://smsc.cnes.fr/SARAL/

+ NEOSSat Search for near-Earth asteroids and space debris.

+ Sapphire ? Canadian Department of National Defence first
dedicated military satellite.

+ CanX-3a, BRITE (BRIght-star Target Explorer) ? small satellite
designed to make photometric observations of bright stars in
order to study their variability.

+ TUGSat-1 – S-Band for telemetry downlinks and will have a 145 MHz
CW beacon.

+ AAUSat 3 ? 1U cubesat developed and constructed by students from
Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University Denmark,
testbed for a pair of AIS receivers. The IARU Amateur Radio coor-
dinated frequency is 437.425 MHz using Viterbi and Reed Solomon
encoding.

+ Max Valier ? Small satellite to encourage student experimentation.
IARU Amateur Radio coordinated frequencies are 145.860 MHz and
145.960 MHz.

Full details and links to the satellite team web pages are posted
on the AMSAT-UK web at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12180

Read the Hindu article at: http://tinyurl.com/TheHindu-PSLV
(www.thehindu.com)

Zarya Launches and Orbital Operations Calendar
http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php

*Lite mer info om små cubesats
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12463

Vi hörs nästa söndag! 73 Håkan SM7WSJ

Vi gratulerar våra danska vänner som nu har en ny satellit i rymden.

Satelliten som kom upp i rymden den 25 Februari har en mottagare för AIS på 162 MHz.  Nedlänk samt kommunikation kommer att ske på 437 MHz.

För mer information   http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat3/