We are waiting on a decision whether or not to deploy the satellite as is, without the 70cm antenna. If, in fact, the 70cm antenna is missing, there would of course be no communications possible through the transponder. Translation: one more piece of space junk that is useless to the amateur radio community that helped pay for it! I guess I shouldn't be too upset. I'm sure there are many others that have much more invested than I do.
KM9U "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -- Mark Twain
----- Original Message ----- From: "Armando Mercado" am25544@triton.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:42 Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat missing antenna
ARISSat is missing an antenna and has been returned to the airlock. Discussions are under way as what to do next. Possible ARISSat would be deployed as is.
Stay tuned...
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