John - VE8EV said : Received telemetry tonite that indicates a successful deploy of the sail.
NanoSailD.org 8C0F0000D32101010104008B740200004BD6C47ACFC0F9C3C4 NanoSailD.org 8C0F0000D32101010104008B74020000C3D6C47ACFC0F9C3C4
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RT: @NanoSailD: John @naeisel has done it! I have two valid data seta and both have the correct signatures.
and then
RT: @NanoSailD: NanoSail-D has sent data that it deployed the sail. Will wait until morning for ground based tracking to confirm.
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Looks very promising John. What I understood from Dean earlier this evening is that once the sail is deployed, there is a small S-Band Tx that will come on for a few seconds out of every minute... Hopefully that will be detected soon at one of the ground terminals for that final confirmation.
Maybe I should find out what that freq is... I only learned about this S-band Tx tonite... Betcha there are some folks here that could hear that too ..!..
Thanks /;^)