The denied application was for transmissions in the 137 MHz Space Operations Service band.
The orbits are 505 km x 490 km, inclined 97.55 degrees. They are cataloged by Space-Track (see objects 43139 - 43142), indicating at least the ability to track them at some points.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Joe N3XLS via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
Are these things in a safe orbit? What frequencies do they use? I would hate for one if these .25U objects to hit one of our sats and completely wipe us out. It seems from the two articles i read on this incident a bunch of people messed up. Including swarm not understanding the situation. -------- Original message --------From: radiomb [email protected] Date: 3/13/18 3:51 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Amsat BB [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] FCC and Satellite Size Just saw this article. The FCC is the controlling agency for the size of a satellite? Not NASA or another agency of the government? Guess that is part of the process that AMSAT has to go thru to get a bird approved. Don't launch these tiny satellites, the FCC said. They're apparently in space anyway
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