Phonesats Launched

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Last night the Phonesats where launched with the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket.

Antares Launch 21-04-2013The primary goal of the Antares A-One mission is to deploy a test mass into low Earth Orbit that simulates the Cygnus spacecraft. But also onboard are the cubesats PhoneSat-1a, 1b & 2 and the Dove-1 cubesat.

PhoneSat satellites are emitting packets on the amateur radio spectrum to report different types of message, If you are an amateur radio operator and you can receive these packets, you have the great opportunity to contribute to the project by submitting them via our website.

TLE orbit information:

ALEXANDER
1 99998U          13111.88195151  .01749543  00000-0  14359-2 0 00009
2 99998 051.6264 310.4979 0014096 349.9961 159.2745 16.09737303000017
GRAHAM
1 99999U          13111.88195151  .01754085  00000-0  14353-2 0 00001
2 99999 051.6264 310.4979 0014219 349.7999 159.4707 16.09768452000013
BELL
1 99997U          13111.88195151  .01577416  00000-0  13157-2 0 00001
2 99997 051.6266 310.4981 0014267 350.0173 159.2536 16.09798779000011