I am not familiar with the construction of the satellite, but, in the
pictures I saved, I can see the black, cylindrical object attached to the
'bottom' side of the satellite, smaller than the one on topbut unlike
the one on top, there seems to be no whip extending from it. I assume this
is
Tough decisions.
ARISSat-1 was taken to the ISS on a Progress vessel with 50-ohm terminations
(dummy loads) installed on both antenna connectors. At the ISS, the
terminations were to be removed and the 2M (long transmit) antenna and 70 cm
(short receive) antenna installed. The ARISSat-1
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I wouldn't exactly call breaking an antenna missing
From what I heard in the traffic and mission commentary, it sounded like the
cosmonauts thought that there were supposed to be 2 and wondered why they saw
just the one on top of the satellite.
Apparently, an antenna went missing so
At least they spotted the missing 70cm antenna before releasing it.
Presumably the antennas would have been removed for the test at the weekend ?
I think the next space walk is scheduled for Feb 2012
73 Trevor M5AKA
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