NanoRacks first cubesats are deployed

The first of the Planet Lab Dove CubeSats were deployed from the ISS on February 11, 2014 about 0831 UTC, astronaut Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA successfully deployed the first of the 33 CubeSats that were launched from the Wallops Flight Facility, VA to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Cygnus freighter on January 9.

nanoracks-iss-deployment

The first two of the Flock-1 constellation of 28 Dove CubeSats made by Planet Labs were deployed at about 0831 UT, it is thought there were another two Dove CubeSats deployed at 1241 UTC.

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In addition to the 28 Planet Labs CubeSats there are four amateur radio CubeSats – LituanicaSat-1, LitSat-1, ArduSat-2 and UAPSat-1 as well as a 915 MHz CubeSat SkyCube.

LituanicaSAT-1 (Facebook)

  • FM Transponder Uplink 145.950 MHz Downlink 435.180 MHz
  • AX25 Uplink 145.850 MHz AX25 Downlink 437.550 MHz
  • CW Beacon 437.275 MHz

LitSat-1 (Facebook)

  • SSB Transponder Uplink 435.180 MHz Downlink 145.950 MHz
  • AX25 Uplink 437.550 MHz Downlink 145.850 MHz

ArduSat (Kickstarter Website)

  • 9k6 MSK CCSDS data format downlink 437.(000)? MHz

UAPSAT

  • AX.25 Packet Radio uplink 145.980 MHz downlink 437.385 MHz

[PE0SAT Thanks Amsat-UK for the above information source:amsat.uk]

Website IPv6 enabled

IPv6_launch_logoThis weekend we did some website maintenance, we created a new db server that can handle more load and enable IPv6. I welcome the new IPv6 visitors and hope you enjoy the information that can be found at this website.

Following Satellites

Following Satellites:

The below image is a Orbitron view screen overview with satellites that I am trying the track and decode at the moment. After the last launches, there are a lot of them.

Active Satellites

It is an overview at 19-01-2014 09:32 UTC.

Delfi-n3XT Telemetry

Delfi-n3XT Telemetry 11-01-2014 10:09 UTC

Decoded with Maspro UHF yagi, SSB preamp, FUNcube Dongle Pro+, SDR# and DUDE Delfispace ground station telemetry decoder. After that the raw packet data was used as input for one of the nice decoder software packages from Mike DK3WN.

Delfinext 11-01-2014 10:09UTC

The latest versions of the software packages from Mike come with a save function that makes a transparent screenshot from the software output. A very nice new feature. Thanks Mike.

CubeBUG-2 Telemetry 08-01-2014

CubeBUG-2 Telemetry 08-01-2014 19:30 UTC

from CUBEB2-6 to CQ: 
   1 > 3A 45 4D 41 49 4C 20 20 20 20 3A 6D 61 6E 6F 6C 69 74 6F 40 
  21 > 73 61 74 65 6C 6C 6F 67 69 63 2E 63 6F 6D 20 55 70 74 3A 20 
  41 > 30 34 3A 34 31 3A 32 34 20 42 61 74 3A 37 2E 39 34 76 20 54 
  61 > 65 6D 70 3A 32 37 2E 38 43 20 47 79 72 3A 30 2E 35 32 64 2F 
  81 > 73 20 
:EMAIL:manolito@satellogic.com Upt: 04:41:24 Bat:7.94v Temp:27.8C Gyr:0.52d/s

CubeBUG-2 TLM 08-01-2014 19:30UTC

Delfi-n3XT Telemetry 04-01-2014

Delfi-n3XT Telemetry 04-01-2014 12:09 UTC

Finally I was able to decode some Delfi-n3XT data. I used a FUNcube Dongle Pro+, SDR# in USB mode with a bandwidth of 3800 Hz and the DUDe software provided by the Delfi ground station team. A total of 251 packets received and forwarded to the ground station server.

Delfi-n3XT Status Message

Below an image from the received spectrum:

Delfi-n3XT SDR 04-01-2014 12:09 UTC

A raw decoded 2400 baud packet:

Rawframe: A8 98 9A 40 40 40 00 88 8C 9C 66 B0 A8 00 03 F0 02 99 76 5E 00 64 00 02 FA\
 92 19 23 C3 0B 12 CE 10 C0 29 0F 22 EF FF 63 25 6D DA EA 00 04 61 5D 06 31 02 02 09\
 11 A9 B2 92 A0 95 96 A9 73 75 6D 6F 87 85 37 2E 68 00 56 02 F0 3B 00 56 01 F0 3C 00\
 58 02 F1 3B 00 58 01 F2 3C 00 00 00 61 5E 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82\
 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58\
 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25\
 82 58 25 82 59 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 25 82 58 A3 4C B2 47 51 42 26 3D\
 F5 38 1B 31 07 24 E7 00 00 04 D4 2C 2E 50 F6 6E A5 97 07 BD 98 DE 3C F9 70 2D 31 RST(0BITS):

Delfi-n3XT telemetry audio example: