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Pratham IITB ny studentsatellit planerad till slutet september

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Ny satellit på gång! I slutet av september planeras Prathem IITB att komma upp med både 2m och 70cm sändare:

The satellite Pratham, built by students at the Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, is expected to launch on the Indian PSLV-C35 mission currently planned
for September 26, 2016.

Pratham, a 300x300x300mm satellite with a mass of 10 kg, aims to measure total
electron count in a 800 km altitude Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

Aayush Yadav of the Pratham team writes:

We, students of IIT Bombay, are glad to inform you that our project, Pratham,
is ready and expected to launch with PSLV-C35 in the last week of September. We
would be really happy if  you all joined us in receiving our satellite’s
beacon, details given below:

Beacon:
Mode: CW
wpm: 35 words
Frequency: 145.980 MHz
(The CW beacon will be on through out the orbit and can be received from
anywhere.)

Downlink:
Mode: FSK
Baudrate: 1200 bps
Frequency: 437.455 MHz
(To be switched on over France and India only)

We will update the information as soon as TLE’s will be available.

Further information at
http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/pratham/

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https://www.facebook.com/iitb.student.satellite/

Källa: ANS

By SM0TGU

Webmaster and member of the AMSAT-SM steering group.

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