Am I wrong to believe AO-10 would be more likely?
73,
Joe kk0sd
________________________________ From: AMSAT-BB [email protected] on behalf of Zach Metzinger [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 3:02 PM To: amsat-bb Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 orbital elements
W4SM was kind enough to provide the following information:
The most you could hope for would be a carrier on the S2 middle beacon frequency, which I can’t recall off the top of my head, but I think it was about 2401.3 +/- MHz. All the other transmitters were dead. Given how many times AO-40 has gone through the radiation belts on its Molyniya orbit, I would doubt that the IHU would be functional at this point.
So, it may, someday, have power, but it may not have any brains to do much with that. We can still hope!
A great technical article about the IHU-2 onboard AO-40 is located at http://www.amsat.org/articles/g3ruh/124.html, and dovetails into a The Experimental IHU-2 Aboard P3D - AMSAThttp://www.amsat.org/articles/g3ruh/124.html www.amsat.org Documents the design and development of an prototype spacecraft flight computer based on the Intel/Digital SA-1100 StrongARM 133 MHz RISC microprocessor.
presentation that our little AMSAT ASCENT group will be making at the Symposium. See ya there!
--- Zach N0ZGO
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