The 7849km AO-7 world record set by AC0RA and I (NZ5N) on July 2 lasted less than 48 hours. Wyatt once again woke up early and this time drove 150 miles to EN41ad. We had a 30 second QSO at 0949Z to extend the record to 7903.55km. Thanks, Wyatt, this has been fun.
NZ5N record information.
Source: Amsat-NA Mailing List
Built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) HORYU-2 is 350 * 310 * 315 mm and mass is 7.1 kg. Launched into a Sun-Synchronous 680 km orbit with an inclination of 98.2°and operate on 437.325 MHz using either 20 wpm Morse Code or 1200 bps AX.25 GMSK.
According to the latest tle-new data HORYU-2 has got NORAD number #38240 and therefore it was object 2012-025D and not the B object instead of what many thought.
An animation showing most of the Aalto-1 mission phases.
Aalto-1 is a student satellite project of Aalto University, Finland. When launched, it will be Finland’s first satellite. It is planned to operate at VHF-UHF and there will also be an S-band transmitter. Up to 8 watts of power will be available from the solar panels.
The main payload of the satellite is a novel tiny Fabry-Perot imaging spectrometer, developed by VTT, Finland. The primary scientific goal of the mission is to demonstrate the feasibility of MEMS Fabry-Perot spectrometers for space applications. This miniature technology can be used in nanosatellites for large a variety of remote sensing applications in the future.
High spectral resolution images can be used for water quality monitoring and land use classification.
VO-52 seems to be down, it hasn’t been heard in the last couple of days. I hope that the ground station in India will give some information about the status of this great Satellite soon.
Today we put up a multi band antenna that can be used for 28, 21 and 14 MHz. The next couple of days we will give Oscar 7 a try when it is in mode A. I hope noise levels are much lower in mode A then in mode B. It is very difficult to work stations because of the high noise level when the satellite is in Mode B and is descending to the north.
I have no idea if a single multi band antenna will be enough for Mode A. Hope to hear you on Oscar 7.
This is a nice opportunity to use your 23cm radio and antenna setup. There are not many Satellites that have 23cm enabled.
Ground Station of CO-65 says that Digipeater is always open in March all over the world.
Uplink 1267.600MHz / Downlink 437.475MHz, 9600bps GMSK
Via the following links one can find more information and send reports.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ct17gmsk.htm
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=26685
[PE0SAT Thanks JE9PEL for the above information]