Upcoming Dnepr launch

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DNEPR-1 Lift OffHere some information regarding the upcoming Dnepr launch. At the moment the launch date is set to 21th November 2013. With this launch there will be flying at least two Cubesats with linear transponder functionality. The launch will be done at the Dombarovskiy Launch Site.

At the moment there are some nice blogs that give insides on the flight preparations, one of them is the ISILanch blog from ISIS in The Netherlands. It is nice to see how every thing is going in the cleanroom.

I am trying to keep this list complete and up to date but with this large group of satellites there is always a chance that I made a mistake or missed something. If so, would please inform me via the contact form so I can correct this information.

DNEPR Launch 21 November 2013 – 07:11:29 UTC

Satellite Type Frequency Owner Remarks
DubaiSat-2 Minisatellite Earth observation EIAST PP
STSat-3 SaTReC Korea PP
AprizeSat 7 and 8 Cubesat SpaceQuest Argentina SP
BPA-3 Hartron-Arkos Ukraine SP
BRITE-PL Cubesat Downlink: 437.365 / 2234.4 MHz Uplink: 437.365 Beacon: 145.890 SRC Poland (website) SP
CINEMA 2 and 3 Cubesat KHU Seoul SP
CubeBUG-2 Cubesat Telemetry and Beacons 437.445MHz 1200bps, AFSK / 9600bps FSK, GMSK Argentina (website) SP
Delfi-n3Xt Cubesat Uplink 435.530 – 435.570MHz Downlink 145.880 – 145.920MHz Telemetry and Beacons 145.870/145.930MHz, 2405.000MHz Delft TU Netherlands (website) SP
Dove-3 Cubesat Planet Labs SP
eSt@r-2 Cubesat 437.485MHz, 1200bps AFSK CW Politecnico di Torino Italy SP
First-MOVE Cubesat Uplink: 435.520 MHz Downlink: 145.970 MHz 1k2 BPSK AX25 (website) SP
FUNCube-1 Cubesat Uplink 435.150-435.130MHz (Inverting) Downlink 145.950-145.970MHz Beacon 145.935MHz 1k2 BPSK Amsat-NL (website) SP
GOMX-1 Cubesat 437.250MHz, 1k2/2k4/4k8/9k6 GMSK GomSpace ApS Denmark (website) SP
HinCube Cubesat 437.305MHz GMSK Narvik Norway (website) SP
KHUSAT 01 and 02 Cubesat SP
NEE-02 Cubesat EXA Ecuador (website) SP
OPTOS Cubesat SP
SkySat-1 Microsat Skybox Imaging USA SP
Triton-1 Cubesat Downlink: 145.815 / 145.860 ISIS The Netherlands SP
UniSat-5 Microsat 437.175/437.425MHz, UHF 9600bps GMSK AX.25 Gauss Italy (website) SP
Dove-4 Cubesat Payload from UniSat-5
HUMSAT-D Cubesat 437.325MHz Vigo Spain (website) Payload from UniSat-5
I-Cube-1 Cubesat 145.947MHz IST Pakistan Payload from UniSat-5
PocketPUCP Pocket Cubesat 437.200MHz, 1200bps AFSK Pontifical Peru (website) Payload from PUCPSAT-1
PUCPSAT-1 Cubesat 145.840MHz 1200bps AFSK Beacon 437.200MHz Pontifical Peru (website) Payload from UniSat-5
$50Sat (Eagle-2) Pocket Cubesat 437.505MHz Payload from UniSat-5
BeakerSat (Eagle-1) Pocket Cubesat 437.465MHz Payload from UniSat-5
QBScout Pocket Cubesat 437.525MHz, 9600bps GMSK UMBC USA (website) Payload from UniSat-5
WREN Pocket Cubesat 437.405MHz, 1200bps FSK CW SSTV StaDoKo Germany (website) Payload from UniSat-5
UWE-3 Cubesat Downlink: 437.385MHz, 1200bps FSK CW UW Germany website SP
Velox-P2 Cubesat Downlink: 145.980 1k2 BPSK Singapore SP
WNISat-1 10kg Micro Sat Axelspace Japan (website) SP
ZACube-1 Cubesat Uplink 145.860MHz Downlink 437.345MHz Beacon 14.099MHz F’SATI South Afric (website) SP

ISIpods dnepr launch

ISIPODs containing Triton-1 (left) and HiNcube, FUNcube-1 and ZACUBE-1 (right) Image credit: Gerard Aalbers – FUNcube team.

Update:

FUNcube-1 Launch: Date and time confirmed, The launch date of RS-20B rocket (Dnepr) with a group of satellites (DubaiSat-2 cluster mission) from Dombarovsky missile area (Yasny Launch Base) has been established for November 21, 2013 at 07:10:11 UT. The back-up launch date is November 22, 2013 at 07:10:11 UT.

Zarya information: Dnepr 21 November 2013 launch update

Thanks to some preliminary TLE data I could calculate the following first pass data over The Netherlands and parts of Europe. 21-11-2013 09:47 CEST (UTC+1).

DNepr 21-11-2013 NL

Delfi-n3Xt Telemetry reception account

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Delfi-n3Xt Telemetry Client Registration & Download

UrgentUpdate, urgent message: 14-11-2013

Unfortunately we have discovered a major problem with our telemetry client DUDe which makes abusive connections to our telemetry server (even without frames being received) which leads to a collapse of our server eventually. We have tested our system, but not apparently not extensively enough to discover this before we made the system publically available. I would kindly like to ask you to close the DUDe client directly if you currently have this running. We will try to fix this problem as soon as we can and release a new version of the client before the launch.

Delfi Nanosatellite Team

Delfi-n3Xt Earth

Delfi-n3Xt sends it data in BPSK modulation on the VHF band. For demodulation using a PC and sound card, you need to tune about 1600 Hz below the VHF downlink frequency of 145.870 MHz (upper sideband) and correct for the Doppler effect. The Doppler frequency can by identified by tracking software. For some combinations of tracking software and receivers, you can automate the Doppler corrections.

To participate in the gathering of data you need a Delfi-n3Xt radio amateur account. Once you have an account you can log in to the server with DUDe to automatically submit demodulated frames and on the radio amateur website to view your submitted data or change your profile. You can register and log in via the following url: DUDe Telemetry Client.

DUDe Screen shot

(Please note that your Delfi-C³ account is not valid for Delfi-n3Xt.)

FUNcube Telemetry Dashboard

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FUNcube Telemetry Dashboard.

FUNcube Dashboard

The FUNcube dashboard software is available at the following location: download. Together with the software, there are also guidance Notes that can be downloaded from here: download – please read them before loading and running the software!

Make sure that the pre-requisites apply before installing and running this software. Prior to updating your station with the capability to receive the FUNcube telemetry, please take a moment to ensure that you register at the FUNcube Data Warehouse at http://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/

STRaND-1 Telemetry 12-11-2013

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STRaND-1 Telemetry 12-11-2013 20:29 UTC

This evening I found it difficult to decode the data that was send by the STRaND-1 satellite. Where not to long ago the amount of frames received where normally more then 500, this even only a hand full. Signal where at times strong enough but the receive combination that I use wasn’t working this evening, or something is changed at the side of the satellite.

Here is something that I could decode:

STRaND-1_BM_12-11-2013_20:29 UTC

[30 Bytes TIME Frame]
ctrl: 54   PID: 30 {I13+}   4 Payload Bytes
from -13 to -8 via -8: 
   1 > 20 55 54 43 
 UTC

[56 Bytes KISS Frame (without CRC)]
ctrl: 79   PID: 30 {UNKNOWN U}   35 Payload Bytes
from )0'"-6 to n@Kn)-10: 
   1 > 44 45 4D 20 42 45 41 43 4F 4E 20 2D 20 48 65 6C 70 20 6D 65 
  21 > 20 4F 42 43 20 4B 65 6E 6F 62 69 0D C0 DC 00 
DEM BEACON - Help me OBC Kenobi.ÀÜ.

AO-27 recovery operations are underway

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Amrad Oscar AO-27 PreFlightLet’s keep our fingers crossed

As of Oct 5, 2012 AO-27 is off-line and the groundstation team is working on a possible solution as one can read on the AO-27 website. After a long periode of silence I was pointed out by N8HM that there was news on the AO-27 website.

Oct 29th, 2013
Recovery operations are underway again for AO-27.
We will try to keep the website up to date with any infomation.
– Michael, N3UC

[PE0SAT Wants to thank N3UC, N8HM and Amsat-BB for the above information]

ISS Slow Scan Active

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ISS MAI-75 Slow Scan experiment

ISS-MAI-75 29-10-2013 11:45UTCDmitry Pashkov UB4UAD reported that the Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment MAI-75 is active during October 28-29, 2013.

He also reports that on October 31, 2013 SSTV images will be transmitted from the ISS on 145.800 MHz showing photographic images of the life and work of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Today at the ISS pass from 12:45 UTC I received the following SSTV image from the International Space Station. The transmissions start late in the pass when ISS is flying over Russia. Therefor I could only receive one image with perfect quality.

Everything you want to now about ISS and amateur radio can be found at the website ISS Fanclub. They are also active on twitter so you don’t have to miss anything.