AO-27 active update. Update: It isn’t active yet! It has not yet been recovered. The command team turned the transmitter on to test it out on June 28th, but they still need to upload the secondary boot-loader and then the … Continue reading
Duchifat-1 Mission Duchifat-1 is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed and built by young Israeli students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC). Orbital parameters NAME DUCHIFAT-1 NORAD 40021 COSPAR designator 2014-033-M Inclination 97.975 RA of A. … Continue reading
LightSail objectives. Solar sails use the sun’s energy as a method of propulsion—flight by light. Light is made of packets of energy called photons. While photons have no mass, a photon traveling as a packet of light has energy and … Continue reading
LightSail was silent for eight days, but she is active again. During this morning (31-05-2015 09:53 UTC) pass over The Netherlands I first received weak FSK signals and realized that the TLE I was using (ULTRASat2) didn’t match very well … Continue reading
PSAT Telemetry 21-05-2015 13:41 UTC PSK31 435.350 NFM – Decoded with DM780 W3ADO-5 beacon B ØØ7 8 44 785 247 +25 W3ADO-5 beacon B ØØ8 93 42 777 247 +25 W3ADO-5 beacon B ØØ9 87 34 784 247 +26 W3ADO-5 … Continue reading
BRICSat-P Telemetry 21-05-2015 13:34 UTC 1:Fm BRCSAT To APUSNA [15:34:09R] 0000000875, 17,674,0,239,754,875,989, 0,110,374,221,110, 27,110,321, 78, 9, 0, 21,294, 0, 14,0.7,-.9,0.5,0.000,0.000,0.000 1:Fm BRCSAT To APUSNA [15:34:40R] US Naval Academy: BRICSat-P 1:Fm BRCSAT To APUSNA [15:35:12R] 0000000935, 18,664 1:Fm BRCSAT To APUSNA … Continue reading