How is the schedule decided? I notice that all of the time where the spacecraft is on, it has just come to Japan. It does not have sunlight by the time it gets here to North America. Does the control station have to turn-on the satellite every orbit? I understand that the battery has failed, so it is my assumption that the satellite must be activated manually by a control station after resumption of sunlight. Is this true? If that is true, then is there some way that another control station in the opposite hemisphere can make the satellite useful over here? Lastly, is there any way that the process can be automated? Thanks,
Auke VE6PWN Edmonton, AB, Canada
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mineo Wakita" ei7m-wkt@asahi-net.or.jp To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:42 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] FO-29 schedule Jan. 2008
Jan. 2008 UTC 8 3:07 - 9 3:57 - 10 3:02 - 11 3:52 - 12 2:57 - 13 3:47 - 14 2:57 - 15 none 16 2:48 - 17 3:38 - 18 2:43 - 19 3:33 - 20 2:40 - 21 none 22 2:35 - 23 3:25 - 24 2:30 - 25 3:20 - 26 2:25 - 27 3:15 - 28 none
de JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita
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