Great news Ron. I thought DANDE were flying on a SpaceX flight so I'd assumed a very low ISS type orbit, interesting to hear they are going out to Van Allen belt.
73 Trevor M5AKA --- On Wed, 20/2/13, Ronald Cox <w9k...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > On Feb18th I visited 4 Labs at UC Boulder as a part of > Lockheed-Martin's Engineering Explorer Post program > (www.engpost.org) that meets every other Tuesday evening > from September to May each year. I am sponsoring two young > men without fathers as members of this Post. What was > interesting to me and potentially other AMSAT members was > that they are getting ready to launch a satellite named > DANDE that will transmit in the 430 MHz Amateur Radio band > using a "modified AX.25" packet radio protocol for the > beacon and data. In the control room I saw the TS-2000 they > are using for communications. The control room and all other > activites for this satellite are located in the Colorado > Space Grant Labs on the University of Colorado's Bolder > Campus in the Discovery Learning Center. It is my > understanding that a launch of this satellite could be as > early as next month (March) as the hardware is now through > testing and being prepared for launch on an > experimental Orbital-Science vehicle. ! > I was told that the orbit would be very elliptical and that > the DANDE was designed for low earth orbit, but this orbit > will take it through the Van Allen belts, so the DANDE could > have a more limited life as a result. > > For more info on DANDE I recommend the following sites: > > http://dande.colorado.edu/files/DANDE_AGU_POSTER.PNG > > http://dande.colorado.edu/files/pilinski_CEDAR_poster_2008_v4pr2.pdf > > http://spacegrant.colorado.edu > > http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/boulderstudents/boulderprojects/dande > > http://www.ofcm.gov/nswp-sp/pdf/NSWP-SP-1995-scan.pdf > > http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/dande-mission > > Ron, W9KFB AMSAT LM-0185 > Greenwood Village, CO > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. > Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur > satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
