11 Aug
2011
11 Aug
'11
7:01 a.m.
On this orbit ARISSat-1 came out of eclipse about 1025 UTC but didn't switch to high power until about 1041 UTC. At 1041 UTC the battery was at 33.078 V. By 1048 UTC the battery was up to 33.5 V and ARISSat-1 was still in high power.
73, Douglas KA2UPW/5
-----Original Message----- From: Mark L. Hammond [email protected] To: Colin Hurst [email protected]; amsat-bb [email protected] Sent: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 5:55 am Subject: [amsat-bb] And the US Re: ARISSat over VK
Confirming same observation here---full sunlight this morning around 1025utc, but in low power mode.
Battery at 32.6V.
73,
Mark N8MH