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Launch Shin-en2 and ARTSAT2 postponed

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shin-en2Update: Shin-en2 and ARTSAT2-DESPATCH has been postponed again. JAXA announcing; Launch date Shin-en2 and ARTSAT2-DESPATCH has been postponed again in December 3 04:22:04 UTC. Soon, there will be a press release.

Update: New launch information, H-IIA F26 Hayabusa2 Launch Asteroid Explorer “Hayabusa2” Launch Live Broadcast 03:30UTC- Dec. 1. Live

Launch Postponement of H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 26 with Hayabusa2 Onboard

The launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 26 (H-IIA F26) with the Asteroid Explorer “Hayabusa2” onboard has been rescheduled as clouds including a freezing layer (please refer to the following figure) that exceeds the restrictions for suitable weather are forecast to be generated at around the scheduled launch time on November 30 (Sun.), 2014 (Japan Standard Time.)
The new launch day will be no earlier than December 1 (Mon.), 2014 (JST).

The new launch day and time will be announced as soon as it is determined after carefully examining the weather conditions.

Official pres release.

DNepr Launch 06-11-2014

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dneprToday November 6 at 07:35:49 UTC a Dnepr rocket carrying the primary payload Asnaro-1 and four microsatellites was launched from Dombarovsky near Yasny. Kosmotras report all spacecraft have been inserted into their target orbits.

  • ChubuSat-1 (Kinshachi-1) 437.485 MHz
  • Tsubame 437.505 and 437.275 MHz
  • Hodoyoshi-1 467.674 MHz
  • QSAT-EOS (Tsukushi) an AX.25 GMSK payload has been reported but the frequency is unknown.

Kosmotras announcement can be found at: http://www.kosmotras.ru/en/news/155/

TSUBAME
1 99998U          14310.32625444  .00000779  00000-0  51437-4 0 00004
2 99998 097.4574 029.7895 0049163 177.7821 352.1497 15.06489506000015

Source: Amsat-UK, eoPortal and R4UAB

Coming Dnepr Launch

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Main payload Deimos-2, KazEOSat 2 and multiple small satellites launch on June 19 2014 with a Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky airbase.

Multiple satellite mission aimed at 600 km circular, sun-synchronous orbit with descending node 22:30 local time.

Precise time aimed for: 19:11:11 UTC.

Name Description Information
Deimos-2 Spanish satellite for optical Earth imaging – member of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, follow-on to Deimos 1 (2009-041A/35681) Deimos-2
KazEOSat 2 (Kazcosmos Earth Observation Satellite) – Medium-resolution observation satellite owned by Kazakhstan. Known as DZZ-MR prior to launch. KazEOSat 2
AprizeSat 9 Small satellite for data collection from small fixed and mobile ground stations.
AprizeSat 10 Small satellite for data collection from small fixed and mobile ground stations.
BRITE Montreal (BRIght Target Explorer) – one of six satellites in a Canadian constellation to make astronomical observations, particularly long-duration observations of bright stars with extremely long periods of oscillation. BRITE constellation
BRITE Toronto (BRIght Target Explorer) – one of six satellites in a Canadian constellation to make astronomical observations, particularly long-duration observations of bright stars with extremely long periods of oscillation. BRITE constellation
BugSat 1 (Tita) – technology demonstration mission for a new design earth observation satellite, testing aerials, camera, GPS receiver and a radio system, launch facilitated by ISILaunch – responsible for most of the Cubesats on this Dnepr.
Hodoyoshi-3 (to be confirmed) small, three axis stabilised satellite for Earth imaging from the University of Tokyo, also carries a store and forward comms payload.
Hodoyoshi-4 (to be confirmed) small, three axis stabilised satellite for Earth imaging from the University of Tokyo, also carries a store and forward comms payload.
SaudiSat-4 (to be confirmed) satellite from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia carrying an experiment jointly designed with NASA Ames Reearch Centre to investigate electrostatic build-up.
Aurora (TabletSat-2U-EO) Russian technology demonstration satellite with an Earth observation still and video camera system. Sputnix
Unisat 6 payload includes an amateur radio communications system but its principal task is as a Cubesat dispenser. Inisat 6 will release them 25 hr 34 min after it has separated from the launch vehicle.
AeroCube 6 1U Cubesat from Aerospace Corporation in the US, payload undisclosed.
ANTELSat 2U Cubesat from Uruguay’s Universidad de la República and the government owned ANTEL (Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones). It carries developmental communications systems operating at VHF,UHF and S-band, and an Earth-imaging system with detectors in the near infrared and visible bands.
Lemur 1 3U Cubesat from Nanosatisfi with a technology demonstration payload of visible and IR imagers.
TIGRISat 3U Cubesat for detection of desert dust storms over Iraq – built by Iraqi students at La Sapienza University, Rome.
DUCHIFAT 1U Cubesat buily by secondary school students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre, Israel with support from the Israeli Amateur Radio Organization, it will transmit real-time information using the Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) protocol.
DTUSat 2 1U Cubesat from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark to provide a spaceborne radio-tracking system capable of locating birds fitted with transmitters on their migration routes.
Flock 1C-1 – Flock 1C-11 3U Cubesat, part of Planet Labs “Flock 1C” consisting of 11 Earth imaging satellites.
NanosatC-Br1 1U Cubesat from Brazil’s Southern Regional Space Research Cente, built in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Maria and the Brazilian Space Agency – INPE.
PACE (Platform for Attitude Control Experiments) – 2U Cubesat developed by students at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan to verify verify and evaluate varying attitude determination and control strategies.
Perseus-M 1 6U (3U x 2U) Cubesat from Dauria Aerospace equipped with a remote sensing imaging system and a receiver for AIS transmissions from ships.
Perseus-M 2 6U (3U x 2U) Cubesat from Dauria Aerospace equipped with a remote sensing imaging system and a receiver for AIS transmissions from ships.
PolyITAN 1U Cubesat from the National Technical University of Ukraine, equipped with a Sun sensor, orientation system and a GLONASS/GPS navigation system.
POPSAT-HIP 1 3U Cubesat from Microspace Rapid of Singapore equipped with an imaging system and a cold gas thruster system for attitude control.
QB50p1 2U Cubesat, one of a pair of precursor satellites for the QB50 project. Carries an Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer to study the Earth’s lower thermosphere. FUNcube-3
QB50p2 2U Cubesat, one of a pair of precursor satellites for the QB50 project. Carries FIPEX (Φ Probe Experiment) to study the presence of atomic Oxygen.

The Quadpack/slot allocations are as follows (information courtesy of ISIS):

QuadPack-1:
Slot 1 – QB50p1 (2U, Belgium) + NANOSATC-BR1 (1U, Brazil)
Slot 2 – QB50p2 (2U, Belgium) + DTUSAT-2 (1U, Denmark)
Slot 3 – POPSAT-HIP1 (3U, Singapore)
Slot 4 – PACE (2U, Belgium/Taiwan) + DUCHIFAT (1U, Israel)

QuadPack-2:
Slot 1 – 2U Mass Dummy* (not to be deployed) + PolyITAN-1 (1U, Ukraine)
Slot 2 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 3 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 4 – Flock-1C (3U, US)

* replaces a 2U Cubesat that was not ready for the preparation cut-off date.

QuadPack-3:
Slot 1 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 2 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 3 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 4 – Flock-1C (3U, US)

QuadPack-4:
Slot 1 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 2 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 3 – Flock-1C (3U, US)
Slot 4 – Flock-1C (3U, US)

QuadPack-5:
1 – PERSEUS-M1 (6U – 3U x 2U, US)
2 – PERSEUS-M2 (6U – 3U x 2U, US)

Source: www.zarya.info

PhoneSAT 2.5 and KickSAT received

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PhoneSAT-KickSAT-Spectrum-AX25

PhoneSAT:
 1:Fm KJ6KRW To CQ Via TELEM  [23:22:13R]
   1 > C0 00 86 A2 40 40 40 40 60 96 94 6C 96 A4 AE 60 A8 8A 98 8A 
  21 > 9A 40 61 03 F0 50 35 44 20 20 5D E1 A7 20 20 58 ED CC 20 20 
  41 > 20 ED 94 A2 8F 25 8E A1 92 A9 91 B2 96 3F 30 ED FF FF 64 30 
  61 > 20 20 27 DD 8C 90 8E DC 8F E0 91 40 8E 5E 95 C6 FF FF 68 A7 
  81 > 63 AE 20 20 29 53 93 4C 95 2E 8E FA 92 71 91 50 95 47 20 20 
 101 > 38 A1 FF FF 20 20 2A A7 90 A2 8D DE 91 9C 93 BE 90 6C 94 58 
 121 > FF FF FF FF 20 20 20 20 2B FB 91 87 94 ED 90 75 93 CA 8F D1 
 141 > 93 F5 20 20 20 20 E9 C0
KickSAT
21:41:26 KD2BHC/TELEM>CQ>UI,?,F0
   1 > C0 00 86 A2 40 40 40 40 60 96 88 64 84 90 86 60 A8 8A 98 8A 
  21 > 9A 40 61 03 F0 50 34 43 2C 37 38 33 2C 30 2C 30 2C 30 2C C0

Recorded IQ file: download (available 18-04-2014 22:30 UTC) PhoneSAT and KickSAT

Cubesats on Falcon 9

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Cubesats on the Falcon 9 SpaceX CRS-3 mission. Current launch date and time is 18-04-2014 19:25 UTC. Successful launch.

CRS-3-Liftoff

P-POD Satellite Name Organization Size Beacon Details Info
1 SporeSat NASA Ames Research Center, Santa Clara University, Purdue University, and University of Texas 3U 437.1 MHz, AX.25, every 5 seconds. Amateur radio operators are encouraged to submit received beacon packets through the mission website to receive a web-based QSL card. More Info
3A TSAT Taylor University 2U More Info
3B PhoneSat-v2.5 NASA Ames Research Center 1U 437.425 MHz, AFSK, 30 second period whilst operational, 150 second beacon in charging mode More Info
4 ALL-STAR/THEIA Colorado Space Grant Consortium at the University of Colorado at Boulder 3U 2.4017 GHz S-Band Antenna, BPSK, every 15 seconds More Info
6 Kick Sat Cornell University 3U KickSat: 437.505 MHz, 1200 Baud, AFSK, AX.25 Packets
ChipSats: 437.240 MHz, Custom Protocol		 More Info

Preliminary TLE: (Update 18-04-2014 16:20 UTC)

ALL-STAR
1 99904U          14108.82875197  .00000477  00000-0  21100-5 0 00002
2 99904 051.6880 036.2255 0017296 294.2322 187.6538 15.83453650000012
KICKSAT
1 99902U          14108.82458530  .00000973  00000-0  40207-5 0 00008
2 99902 051.6689 036.2845 0022399 282.0950 176.0396 15.84690924000016
PHONESAT25
1 99901U          14108.82250197  .00000974  00000-0  40025-5 0 00005
2 99901 051.6697 036.3582 0022405 273.7528 172.4853 15.84797260000018
SPORESAT
1 99903U          14108.82666863  .00000843  00000-0  36053-5 0 00009
2 99903 051.6643 036.2776 0019904 288.7805 181.2153 15.84059851000017

Latest SpaceX information: Nasa SpaceX
Cubesat information: Cubesat.org

Launch of 200 sprite Satellites

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Launch of Two Hundred 437MHz Satellites

Deploying-the-200-sprite-satellites

The largest ever launch of 437 MHz satellites is planned for March 16 at 0841 UTC when 200 Sprite satellites will fly on the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS 3 mission to be deployed into a 325×315 km 51.5 degree inclination orbit. You should be able to watch the launch live on NASA TV.

kicksat-437-mhz-sprite-satelliteA Sprite is a tiny, 3.5 by 3.5 cm, single-board spacecraft that was developed by Zac Manchester KD2BHC. Among those involved  in the early days of the project was UK radio amateur Michael Johnson M0MJJ. While a visiting scientist at Cornell University he was the first project manager designing the mission and KickStarter campaign.

Each Sprite has a microcontroller, radio, and solar cells and is capable of carrying single-chip sensors, such as thermometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and accelerometers.

The 200 Sprites are carried in a 3U CubeSat called KickSat. They are stacked atop a spring-loaded pusher and secured by a nichrome burn wire system.

On reaching orbit KickSat will perform a de-tumble maneuver and establish communication with Cornell University’s ground station. After check-out, the spacecraft will be put in a sun-pointing attitude and spun up to maintain that attitude.

A command signal from the ground station will then trigger the deployment and the Sprites will be released as free-flying spacecraft. After deployment, telemetry and sensor measurements from the individual Sprites will be received through Cornell’s ground station in Ithaca, NY, as well as several other amateur ground stations around the world.

Due to the low orbit Sprites will have a short lifetime before they reenter the atmosphere and burn up. In the best-case scenario the orbital lifetime could be six weeks but realistically it may be considerably shorter depending on atmospheric conditions.

All Sprites operate on a single frequency of 437.240 MHz and use Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). The transmitter runs 10 mW output of Minimum Shift Keying (MSK) modulated binary data with each data bit modulated as a 511 bit Pseudo-Random Number (PRN) sequence.

The ITU emission designator is 50K0G1D.

The KickSat CubeSat has downlinks on 437.505 MHz and 2401-2436.2 MHz.

Watch KickSat Sprite Deployment

KickSat Sprite Ground Station by Andy Thomas G0SFJ
http://kicksat.wordpress.com/support/kicksat-ground-station/

[PE0SAT Thanks Amsat-UK for the above information]