Info från ANS:
This week India successfully launched seven satellites on its PSLV-C14 misson. The primary payload was OceanSat-2 but also included six other satellites. Four of the satellites are CubeSats in the ISILaunch01, a cluster launch of the following with downlinks in the 70cm amateur radio
band: BEESAT, ITUpSAT1, SwissCube, and UWE-2
NAME CALL BEACON DOWNLINK
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BEESAT DP0BEE 436.000 MHz 0.1W CW 436.000 MHz 0.5W 4800/9600 GMSK
UWE-2 437.385 MHz 0.5W 1200 AFSK
9600 FSK
ITUpSAT1 437.325 MHz 0.1W CW 437.325 MHz 1.0W 19200 GFSK
SwissCube HB9EG 437.505 MHz 0.1W CW 437.505 MHz 1.0W 1200 FSK
BeeSat is a pico satellite project of the Technical University of Berlin. The main objective of BeeSat is the on orbit verification of newly developed micro reaction wheels for pico satellite appli- cations. Their web page is at:
http://www.raumfahrttechnik.tu-berlin.de/menue/forschung/projekte/beesat/v-m
enue2/news/
The UWE-2 team encourages all radio amateurs to send us the received signals to uwe-2@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de. Their web page is at:
http://www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/research/space_exploration/projek
te/cubesat/uwe-2/
ITUpSAT1 is the first student-made satellite of Turkey. Their web page is at: http://usl.itu.edu.tr/
SwissCube is the first satellite entirely built in Switzerland by students from different universities under the supervision of the Space Center EPFL. More than 180 students participated in the ad- venture from EPFL, from the university of Neuchatel, from the HES-SO (Sion, Yverdon, Fribourg, St-Immer, Le Locle), and from the FHNW (Brugg-Windisch). The main objective is educational and also includes a small telescope which will allow to obtain images of the nightglow, a luminescence phenomena occurring at 100 km of height above the Earth surface. Their web page is at: http://swisscube.epfl.ch/
A replay of the PSLV-C14 launch video can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h69XGgHXMS0&feature=player_embedded#t=16
http://archangelo.net/misc/sat/new/sep09/pslvc14/view.htm
Signal reports have been received from amateur radio operators around the world. Recordings of the beacon signals can be heard at:
http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/PSLV/
2-Line Keplerian elements user for the satellites can use the following for a starting point:
ITUPSAT1
1 35934U 09051D 09266.99498802 .00000364 00000-0 10000-3 0 34
2 35934 098.3432 001.6766 0010433 256.9573 103.1084 14.52588677 111
SWISSCUBE
1 35932U 09051B 09266.92637809 .00000360 00000-0 10000-3 0 33
2 35932 098.3362 001.6263 0006692 285.2589 074.8063 14.52095115 95
BEESAT
1 35933U 09051C 09267.20165191 .00000365 00000-0 10000-3 0 42
2 35933 098.3316 001.8957 0004681 307.1077 052.9887 14.52667744 138
UWE-2
1 35935U 09051E 09267.47761234 .00001929 00000-0 48744-3 0 46
2 35935 098.3417 002.1786 0006949 283.1563 076.8911 14.52112524 176
[ANS thanks the CubeSat teams for the above information]