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AMSAT-SM HF-nätet 3/2 2013

Hej!

Dagens deltagare.

SM4EFW
SM4JLX
SM5HL
SM6NZV
SM7WSJ

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*Information om årsmöte har gått ut på nätet

*Asteroid
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/28jan_2012da/

*STRaND-1
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12431

*February 14 PSLV-C20 Launch Planned by India

India’s “The Hindu” newspaper reports that the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) has slated its first launch of the year PSLV-CA
(PSLV-C20) for February 14. This launch includes the SARAL ocean
study spacecraft and satellites carrying amateur radio payloads.

The payload includes:

+ SARAL – Ka-band radar altimeter operating at 35.75 GHz.
See: http://smsc.cnes.fr/SARAL/

+ NEOSSat Search for near-Earth asteroids and space debris.

+ Sapphire ? Canadian Department of National Defence first
dedicated military satellite.

+ CanX-3a, BRITE (BRIght-star Target Explorer) ? small satellite
designed to make photometric observations of bright stars in
order to study their variability.

+ TUGSat-1 – S-Band for telemetry downlinks and will have a 145 MHz
CW beacon.

+ AAUSat 3 ? 1U cubesat developed and constructed by students from
Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University Denmark,
testbed for a pair of AIS receivers. The IARU Amateur Radio coor-
dinated frequency is 437.425 MHz using Viterbi and Reed Solomon
encoding.

+ Max Valier ? Small satellite to encourage student experimentation.
IARU Amateur Radio coordinated frequencies are 145.860 MHz and
145.960 MHz.

Full details and links to the satellite team web pages are posted
on the AMSAT-UK web at: http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12180

Read the Hindu article at: http://tinyurl.com/TheHindu-PSLV
(www.thehindu.com)

Zarya Launches and Orbital Operations Calendar
http://www.zarya.info/Calendar.php

*Lite mer info om små cubesats
http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=12463

Vi hörs nästa söndag! 73 Håkan SM7WSJ

By SM0TGU

Webmaster and member of the AMSAT-SM steering group.

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