by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Alan WA4SCA has posted information from Space Track of the object-satellite pairings for the PSLV-C20 launch that carried the UK smartphone satellite STRaND-1 into space. He writes: JSpOC [Joint Space Operations Center] has named the...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 28, 2013 | Daily Updates
Roland Zurmely PY4ZBZ in Brazil has received the 437.568 MHz telemetry signal from the STRaND-1 smartphone satellite launched on Monday, February 25. See his STRaND-1 telemetry page in Google English at http://tinyurl.com/cf8l8n4 Page in Portugese...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
AMSAT-NA reports that the RadFxSat/Fox-1B proposal has been accepted by NASA. Tony Monteiro AA2TX writes: I am pleased to announce that our NASA ELaNa proposal for RadFxSat/Fox-1B has been accepted. Here is the NASA announcement. Note that the projects are listed in...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 27, 2013 | Daily Updates
Tweets from Surrey Space Centre @SpaceAtSurrey regarding #STRaND-1. We have a new beacon type out at the moment – and it has a message in it! See if you can receive it š First to pick it up gets … free STRaND-1 stickers! STRaND-1 437.568 MHz telemetry...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
STRaND-1 carries an amateur radio AX.25 packet radio downlink onĀ 437.568 MHz using 9600 bps FSK modulated data with HDLC frame, NRZI encoding. Dr Chris Bridges would be delighted to receive all available telemetry files by email to C.P.Bridges@surrey.ac.uk Excel...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 26, 2013 | Daily Updates
UniBriteĀ (CanX 3A) was launched Monday, February 25, on the same rocket as STRaND-1. It has an amateur radio Morse Code beacon on 145.980 MHz. This report was posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board by Yasir Osman ST2YM in Khartoum, Sudan. ST2UOK ground station at the...
