CAS-2
CAMSAT and students at the Qian Youth Space Academy have been working on the next satellite CAS-2 this is the successor of the first CAMSAT amateur radio satellite CAS-1 (aka XW-1, HO-68). The launch of CAS-2 is planned for 2014 into a 1000 km orbit with an inclination of 12 degrees. This orbit means it may not be receivable in those countries at high latitudes. It is understood that most of the room in CAS-2 will be taken up by the primary (non-amateur) payload and it has only been possible to fit a single channel FM amateur transponder in the satellite. The announcement of May 20 indicates that two seperate CAS-2 satellite structures are being built – A1 and A2.
During his stay in Germany, Alan Kung BA1DU shared the following information with Amsat-DL:
Peter DB2OS:
CAS-2 will end 2014 with a new Chinese missile from a new Chinese launch site into a sun-synchronous orbit to start. It is also developing another satellite to be 3-axis stabilized and is to be launched in the GTO. Date is still unknown, but here I would suspect the 12 inclination more.
Mike DK3WN:
I talked to Alan Kung BA1DU, that a linear transponder significantly makes more sense than an FM transponder.
Orbital parameters
Name CAS-2 NORAD ? COSPAR designation ? Inclination (degree) ? RAAN ? Eccentricity ? ARGP ? Orbit per day ? Period ? Semi-major axis ? Perigee x apogee ? Drag factor ? Mean anomaly ?
Downlink
Unknown at this moment
Uplink
Unknown at this moment
Mode and Antenna Polarization
Call
Status
To be launched at the end off 2012.
Homepage and other references:
Source:
Amsat-DL Mailing-list forum [at] amsat-dl.org
Amsat-UK CAS-2
Further information in Google English can be seen at CAS-2 Satellite