Author: SM0TGU

Nu har UKube-1 planerad uppskjutningsdag satt till den 8:e juli. Satelliten har många amatörradio-payloads ombord som bygger på succen med FUNcube. Läs mer:

UKube-1 is scheduled to launch from Pad 31/6 at Baikonur on Tuesday afternoon. July 8th 2014 @ 15:58:28 UTC and to be deployed from the final stage of the Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M launch vehicle at 18:32:42 UTC.

And this is accompanied by a spreadsheet showing the anticipated UK passes for the first orbits together with a worksheet showing the telemetry equations.

UKube-1 carries a number of experiments and payloads and also the FUNcube-2 transponder and telemetry sub-system. This is intended to support the current, very successful operations of FUNcube-1 and to provide an even better operational capability for schools and colleges to use for hands on educational outreach around the world. Further details of the educational outreach opportunities are available here http://funcube.org.uk/education-outreach/

When the FUNcube-2 sub-system is activated, the 1k2 BPSK telemetry will be downlinked on 145.915 MHz in the same way as already happens with FUNcube-1.

Mer info: http://amsat-uk.org/2014/07/03/ukube-1-launch-information/

A new FUNcube-2 Dashboard UI will be released shortly. This will integrate directly with the existing FUNcube Central Data Warehouse and existing usernames and authorisation codes can be re-used.

When the transponder is activated, the downlink passband will be 145.930 to 145.950 MHz and the uplink passband will be 435.080 to 435.060 MHz.

It is anticipated that the FUNcube sub-system may be tested for short periods during the next few weeks depending upon how the LEOP plan progresses.

AMSAT-UK personnel will be supporting the UKube-1 operations team at Chilbolton during the immediate post launch period and will be ensuring that regular status reports are made available via IRC and other channels.

AMSAT UK and their colleagues at AMSAT-NL are delighted that UKube-1 is carrying this FUNcube sub-system and wish every success to the UKube Operations Team and to all the many contributors to the project.

Nu har vi ytterligare två Oscar-satelliter. QB50p1 och QB50p2 har nu fått namnen EO-79 and EO-80. Läs mer:

OSCAR Numbers Assigned for CubeSats QB50p1 and QB50p2

In an email to Mr. Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG, AMSAT-NL and Mr. Jeroen
Rotteveel, ISIS CEO, OSCAR Number Administrator William A. (Bill)
Tynan, W3XO, announced,
“I have received your request for OSCAR Numbers for CubeSats QB50p1
and QB50p2 and from everything I can determine these spacecraft meet
all of the requirements necessary to receive OSCAR numbers.

“Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President,
I hereby confer the designation European OSCAR 79 to CubeSats QB50p1
and European OSCAR 80 to CubeSat CubeSats QB50p2. These designations
can, of course, for convenience be shortened to EO-79 and EO-80.

I, and the entire amateur satellite community, hope for successful
missions for both EO-79 and EO-80 and congratulate AMSAT-NL and the
ISIS team as well as all who contributed to these new Amateur Radio
satellites for their success in building, testing and launching these
new OSCARs.”

[ANS Thanks Bill W3XO and AMSAT-NA for the above information]

Den 19 juni 2014 skickades 37 satelliter upp från Dombarovsky i Ryssland varav 12 av dessa har amatörradio ombord. Dessa har bla. möjlighet till SSB/CW linjär transponder, FM voice transponder, D-STAR Parrot Repeater och Packet Radio Digipeaters.

Lite mer info om QB-satelliterna som har FUNcube payloads ombord:

QB50p1
• 145.815 MHz BPSK telemetry
• Transponder
– 435.035-435.065 MHz Uplink LSB
– 145.935-145.965 MHz Downlink USB

QB50p2
• 145.880 MHz BPSK telemetry
• 145.840 MHz 9600 bps FSK FX25

Här en utmärkt frekvenskarta av Mike Rupprecht DK3WN