Hello All,
The PSLV C-18 Mission is a Grand success. All the four satellites were
successfully injected into their precise orbits.
The Jugna was injected at 05:56 UT and the beacon will turn ON at
06:31 UT. It is expected that the Jugnu at that time should be
somewhere over N.W of South Amer
Dear Folks,
"SRMSAT" a Nano Satellite from SRM University and "Jugnu" from IIT kanpur,
India have been successfully placed in orbit at 11:32 Am IST. I would
request the Hams all over the world to track the satellites and send in the
beacon data to the following address.
kc2...@arrl.net and
sanj
ARISsat performance.
Very poor performance of ARIssat over ZL today (7 passes.). All passes in
Low Power Mode except the last which was in Emergency mode. All passes were
fully sunlit and had been on for 30 minutes or more before my AOS. A few
went to high power mode for a minute or two mid pa
Hi All,
In response to Trevor's questions, the current board design is about
3.2 cm x 3.2 cm x 4 mm. At that size, we can fit about 200 in a 1U
CubeSat (stacked 3x3x22). We're pretty sure we can thin that down a
little more by using thinner PCBs. If we get way more than 200, we
can always go to
Dear friends,
As you all might be aware that two cubesats 'Jugnu' and 'SRMSat' using
amateur frequencies are to be launched by PSLV C-18 from Satish Dhawan
Space Centre [SDSC], Shriharikota, India. The expected launch time is
05:30 UT.
In this regard, I'm herewith forwarding the mail from
> Question, what is the closest spacing for geo
> satellites to share the same slot?
> Is this theoretically practical and or possible?
I think someone already said that there are no such thing as physical slots.
Slots are FREQUENCY based. Meaning their separation only has to be as great as
Michael Curie
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
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Hi Guys,
Been asked by the student that is running some tests on the very simple
camera that we are
installing on KiwiSAT, what the cost would be of a commercial satellite
surveillance camera.
He has not found any prices despite web searching - and I haven't done much
better!
He
Hello Everyone,
Here is one news item that will happen before the weekend ANS bulletins are
sent out:
The PSLV C-18 launch from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre [SDSC], in
Shriharikota, India will be webcast live at http://www.isro.org/. The
expected launch time is 05:30 UTC October 12.
The J
What you're describing is the AMSAT Phase 3 paradigm which IMHO is still the
most viable way to go.
I would never say never, but we (AMSAT) haven't had great success with
propulsion systems in our amateur satellites. That is why I'd like to have
more experience with successful propulsion eve
--- On Tue, 11/10/11, Joe wrote:
> How hard (Energy) budget is it to have that giant elliptical orbit,
> I can't remember what bird had it, but it was an orbit named like
> moylina or something like that where the perigee was very low
> but the apogee was like WAY out there giving passes that
I'm guessing you're running XP on that computer? If so, the kepler folder is
now (v12.8) located at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application
Data\SatPC32\Kepler where "Owner" is the profile name you sign on with.
George, KA3HSW
- Original Message
> From: Howard Kowall
> To: am
Howard,
This depends on your OS and the version of SatPC32. On more current versions
of both software and OS, the folders are HIDDEN by default, so you to make sure
you have can see all files (it's Windows Folders option). It's a tad
annoying...so get those files unhidden.
On a Windows7 sy
How hard (Energy) budget is it to have that giant elliptical orbit, I
can't remember what bird had it, but it was an orbit named like moylina
or something like that where the perigee was very low but the apogee
was like WAY out there giving passes that were extremely long.
Joe WB9SBD
The O
Howard,
I was curious since I seem to remember these as you do.
I looked at the download screen and it points to:
C:\users\name of user\appdata\roaming\satpc32\kepler\
My user name happens to be "DEE"
Hope you find it.
73,
Dee, NB2F
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From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org
[mail
All,
As most of you know me, I am one of the voices in the crowd
within satellite circles and have been accused of having my
own agenda. I am a fixture at many hamfests here in the New
Jersey Area and wherever I can present to the Amateur
community the aspects of satellite activity and promote
AM
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:08:01 -0400
Ken Ernandes wrote:
> I hope this is somehow helpful in understanding what AMSAT would really be up
> against if it wanted to have an independent GEO satellite or consider a
> sub-GEO drifting orbit.
Thank you Ken, for the rocket scientist's take on it ;-)
Hello all
I have an older laptop that has no internet connection,I run Satpc32 on my main
computer that has internet connection and I am able to update the kepler data.I
want to use the kepler data from my main computer,and copy it to my laptop via
USB flash drive.I cant seem to find the keple
Question, what is the closest spacing for geo satellites to share the same
slot? Is this theoretically practical and or possible?
Dave Marthouse N2AAM
dmartho...@gmail.com
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No
How about a high altitude drifter above the geo belt? In fact wasn't that
talked about by a few amsat people in the early 80's. I seem to remember
hearing it discussed by the late Rip WA2LQQ on the 75 meter Amsat net back
in the day.
Dave Marthouse N2AAM
dmartho...@gmail.com
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Paul -
Your final suggestion is something that is workable. Placing a satellite say
200 km below GEO would result in the satellite drifting about 10 minutes per
day or about 2.5 degrees per day. This would result in a cycle that repeats
about every 144 days (or about 2.5 times per year), rela
Hi Zac,
I wish you well with the project it's a great idea.
I'd like to clarify the number of sprites that will be carried on the first 1U
CubeSat. The website says:
"KickSat is a CubeSat - a standardized small satellite that we can easily
launch. It is designed to carry hundreds or even tho
I wonder if we could build a LEO uplinking to and downlinkingf rom a
geosationary satellite on its spare transponder capacity? Initially by AX25
packet from ground to the LEO sat on our frequencies, then by license up to the
geo which would see the leo longer than a ground station would?
just
I agree that the "best" hope for a GEO payload is a hosted one on a commercial
sat, but the odds of it happening are pretty thin.
The biggest obstacle to this is not station keeping fuel however. There are
few satellites that simply run out of station keeping fuel with all their
transponders
The 5 in em55 award info can be seen on QRZ lookup WA4NVM or WA4HFN .
Skeds are ok too.
Several donations to AMSAT have been made from this award Thank you
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Not an AMSAT
>> the risk of collision is more real than one might think.
> I would think the risk of collision is so tiny
> as to be effectively negligible.
I think it is, but when "negligible" incurs about a BILLION$$$ worth of
loss, it magnifies the risk.
> If we position our satellite halfway between two
Hi!
The hamfest season out here in Arizona is about to start. I will be
at the Old Pueblo Radio Club's annual hamfest in Tucson AZ a week from
Saturday, on 22 October 2011. This is a week later than usual, since
this hamfest has normally taken place the same weekend as the Scouting
Jamboree on
Hello All,
Sorry for taking so long to respond here on the AMSAT-BB - I know I've
spoken with some of you separately by email through kickstarter, but I
wanted to make sure I responded to everyone's concerns.
In response to Andreas' comments about wanting to use his own hardware
to listen to the
The unit has been taken. Thanks to those who inquired.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
-Original Message-
From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On
Behalf Of Alan P. Biddle
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:33 PM
To: AMSAT-BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] Am-Comm Clear Speech Base
Dear friends,
As you all might be aware that two cubesats 'Jugnu' and 'SRMSat' using
amateur frequencies are to be launched by PSLV C-18 from Satish Dhawan
Space Centre [SDSC], Shriharikota, India. The expected launch time is
05:30 UT.
In this regard, I'm herewith forwarding the mail from
On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:31 AM, Ken Ernandes wrote:
> For those believing in the large space, small satellite theory, the risk of
> collision is more real than one might think.
It must be, since I would think the risk of collision is so tiny as to be
effectively negligible. If we position our satel
Op 11-10-2011 16:23, Joe schreef:
Too bad we can't get one of the TV sat people to allow us to have one
of their channels. It would be wide enough to hold hundreds of QSO's
at the same time for sure. And I bet they have at least one that
isn't doing anything at all.
But of course thats not
People - I have contacted the Wyndham hotel in San Jose CA and they have
agreed to move the cutoff date for room reservations to *October 24th*. The
phone number is 408-453-6200 and the reservation block code is AMSAT. The
Symposium is November 4th - 6th with an optional tour on Sunday. For more
I ask this in all seriousness though. Is a giant repeater in the sky with no
need to handle Doppler shift really something that would be used? That would
take some of the magic out of it. Having to follow a schedule and have the
computer and radio synced to correct for the shift is part of the o
Too bad we can't get one of the TV sat people to allow us to have one of
their channels. It would be wide enough to hold hundreds of QSO's at
the same time for sure. And I bet they have at least one that isn't
doing anything at all.
But of course thats not a ham band either bummer!
Joe WB9
I agree with much of what Dan, N8GFV, says. Our best hope of a high altitude
satellite is probably a hosted payload on a GEO sat. To make that viable we
need to consider the entire mission. GEO satellite operators are a for-profit
business and every aspect of a commercial satellite has a dollar
You are viewing it only from the point of view of signal interference. In
reality, the greater issue is maintaining our position and the risk of
collision. There is a very tight band that defines geostationary and there are
some significant disturbing forces: Earth's triaxial gravity distribut
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