Open Source Satellite OSSI CubeSat Launch in April 2013
OSSI-1, the Open Source Satellite Initiative satellite, developed by
Hojun Song DS1SBO, is planned to launch in the 2nd quarter of 2013
into a 575 km 63° inclination orbit on a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from the
Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. The 1U cubesat is 100% based
on COTS components. The main payload, the Bion-M1 satellite, antici-
pates a planned launch date of April, 2013.
Reports say OSSI-1 will have a beacon in the 145 MHz band, a data
communications transceiver in the 435 MHz band although actual opera-
ting frequencies have yet to be published. The data communications
transceiver is reported to be using an open protocol, details have
not been released yet.
OSSI-1 also carries a 44 watt LED optical beacon to flash Morse Code
messages to observers on Earth.
The development of the satellite has been documented on the Open
Source Satellite Initiative Blog http://opensat.cc/blog/ and the
Wiki http://opensat.cc/wiki/
Other cubesats on this launch will include:
+ SOMP – downlink on 437.485 MHz including CW, 1k2 and 9k6 BPSK,
AX25 FSK, and AO40 standard 400bit/s BPSK.
+ BEESAT 2 – 4k8 GMSK on 435.950 MHz
+ BEESAT 3 – 4k8 GMSK on 435.950 MHz
+ Dove-2 – Commercial technology demonstration mission.
+ Bion-M1 – Research satellite collaboration between NASA and the
Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems. The mission
will launch an unmanned automated spacecraft carrying
a biological payload into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The
rodents on the Bion-M1 spacecraft will be exposed to
spaceflight conditions for approximately one month.
AMSAT-UK published photos and additional news at:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12231
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]