Congratulations to the whole team, this is great news.
The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the
FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been
placed into its launch POD.
This work was completed during a three day programme at the premises
of ISIS BV in Delft in the Netherlands and was finished, on time, late
this afternoon.
FUNcube-1 is actually the middle 1U CubeSat of three sharing a 3U
ISIPOD. It is sharing the ISIPOD with ZACUBE-1 from South Africa and
HINcube from Norway. ZACube-1, in addition to carrying VHF and UHF
communications equipment also has a 20 metre beacon which will operate
on 14.099MHz This ISIPOD, with the spacecraft inside, will be
transported to Russia, early next month,for launch and will eventually
be attached directly to the launch vehicle.
FUNcube-1 carries a U/V linear transponder and the educational
telemetry beacon using 1k2 BPSK for school outreach purposes.
The current launch info has lift off scheduled for November 21st at
07:11:29 UTC
Full intial orbit details and TLE’s, together with decoding sofwtare
will be made available over the next few weeks
best 73
Graham G3VZV – Wouter PA3WEG – Jim G3WGM
73 Jan PE0SAT
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With regards PE0SAT
Internet web-page http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/
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