Hello Mineo,
I hope all goes well with the launch; these are certainly interesting satellites. Since many of the webpages are in Japanese only, do you know if there are any two way packages that might eventually be made available to amateurs worldwide?
I noticed the CW beacons are mostly clustered within 190khz of each other. That is fortunate, and I'd like to think by design? I intend to record some of the initial passes via my SDR-IQ, which may be helpful in sorting out the initial keplerian elements based on Doppler shift.
73 and good luck to JAXA, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mineo Wakita" ei7m-wkt@asahi-net.or.jp To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:39 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] New CubeSat Launch
Liftoff: 03:54(UTC) on Jan.21, 2009 Vehicle: H-IIA F15 Launch: Tanegashima Space Center in Japan Payloads: GOSAT (Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite) IBUKI
Piggyback Payloads: Satellite Downlink Beacon Mode Callsign KAGAYAKI (Solan Co.) 437.375 437.375 FSK9k6/CW STARS (Kagawa Univ.) 437.485/465 437.305/275 FM/CW JR5YBN/JR5YBO KKS-1 (Tokyo MCIT) 437.455 437.385 AFSK/CW JQ1YDG PRISM (Tokyo Univ.) 437.425 437.250 AFSK/GMSK/CW JQ1YCX SOHLA-1 (ASTRO TECH.) 437.505 437.505 AFSK/CW SPRITE (Tohoku Univ.) Scientific observation satellite SDS-1 (JAXA) Small demonstration satellite
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f15/overview/sub_payload_e.html http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f15/overview/ibuki_e.html http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f15/overview/h2a_e.html http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat/index_e.html
JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita
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