[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat : only a few more days !

2011-12-28 Thread G0MRF
Hi Roland. That is really impressive. May I reproduce your graphs for a display for our schools physics classes ?? Callsign left in place so they can 'google' your call. Many thanks David In a message dated 27/12/2011 23:14:39 GMT Standard Time, py4...@yahoo.com writes:

[amsat-bb] AO-27 web page is back up!

2011-12-28 Thread ryan woods
I just got to looking and saw that the AO-27 web page is back up! Good news! 73 Ryan KD8ATF Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the

[amsat-bb] Chaos Communication Congress Dec 27-30

2011-12-28 Thread Trevor .
A atellite related topic at todays Chaos Communication Congress Building a Distrubuted Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4699.en.html Tomorrow - Not your Grandfathers moon landing

[amsat-bb] Alive and kicking on 12/28 1812z NA pass - Re: Re: ARISSat-1 Dead? - No, Sir!

2011-12-28 Thread Bruce
Just copied Arissat-1 including the English and Japanese messages, some details on battery voltage, along with the SSTV transmission. Have some cleanup to do on the wav file to get rid of the static before/after the transmissions (currently 16 MB !!), but will post it (where should it go?)

[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1

2011-12-28 Thread Carl Rimmer W8KRF
I wanted to let W6IHG that I did hear him through ARISSat-1 during my 1817 UTC pass. I have an audio recording of that pass. I believe I also heard WB2OQQ. There was also a station sending SSTV through the transponder but the station was not using Doppler. He went right out of the

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat : only a few more days !

2011-12-28 Thread Wayne Estes
Out of curiosity, what method is used to keep the International Space Station from burning up? I know that periodic boosts are done to raise the orbit. Is that done with rocket engines built into the space station? If so, it seems that storage and eventual reloading of the fuel would be

[amsat-bb] ARRISSat-1 Decay from Space-Track

2011-12-28 Thread John Heath
  Hi,   60 day predictions on the Space-Track web site has ARISSat-1 object 37772  re entering  30th December. Based on the posts on this topic from  Nico, Roland and James, and my calculations, I think we have a bit longer. But only a few days.   73 John G7HIA

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat : only a few more days !

2011-12-28 Thread Mark Lunday
Periodic reboosts are thus necessary every few months, usually undertaken by a Progress cargo ship docked to the Russian segment, or an Orbiter when docked to Destiny. http://suzymchale.com/ruspace/issorbit.html -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org