That was awesome......(and prodigious use of the letter P), Presumably Osh Park with their promptly produced perfect purple PCBs would be proud.
I too am very interested in the K-band system. Did some googling, wish there was more about it on the web, but get that we might not be able to bug them for a bit as things are busy. Will they be formally turning the system over to AMSAT for command and control after completion of their mission.......will there be a chance in the future to turn the K-Band system on when not over Washington? Any info on the ground systems they are using to demonstrate the K-band radio? I'm wondering about feasibility of follow on experiments with microwave. Seems like a good candidate mission to pair up with the 6.1m antennas brought up at the Symposium for University of Arizona / Rincon (useable up to ~250 GHz).....maybe useful to demonstrate their ground systems are working (if the K-band TX can be turned on over Arizona/Colorado).....
-Zach, KJ4QL*P*
P.S. yours was more original :-)
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Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 2:06 PM
To: Paul Stoetzer
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Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] HuskySat
Presuming that their primary mission pulsed plasma thruster performs perfectly, perhaps Paul can proclaim for us the predicted perigree perturbations?
What is the expected new orbit after thrusting? Higher apogee? Elliptical?
73,
Douglas KA2UPW/5
> On Nov 2, 2019, at 11:07 AM, Paul Stoetzer via AMSAT-BB
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Cygnus is scheduled to depart the ISS on January 13, 2020 and raise
> its orbit to around 500 km before deploying HuskySat-1 and SwampSat.
> After deployment, I believe the 1200 bps BPSK beacon on 435.800 MHz
> (decodable with FoxTelem) will be active. It will then complete its
> primary mission, expected to last 30 days, testing a pulsed plasma
> thruster
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