Good question! With so many satellites in orbit, they compete for our monitoring time.
So, it's been many weeks since I have tried Taurus-1. Up until that time, the digital voice transponder was working fine, but was not really usable as the spacecraft appeared to be experiencing a high rate of spin.
After seeing your message, I quickly got setup for the 1546 UTC pass here on 22-Jan even though it was only going to be at 40 deg. max elevation. In the past that had not quite been enough for me to get in reliably.
In my hurry to get all the apps running to decode the downlink, I made a mistake so don't have any voice recordings to share. However, looking at the waterfall, there appeared to be a strong downlink each time I transmitted on the 2m FM uplink. Also, on replay, several telemetry packets decoded cleanly and were uploaded to the SatNogs database by the GNU Radio flowgraph:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w9jkyzx5bu6tqdq/satnogs-db.png?raw=1
... so, while I will need a higher elevation pass (and more careful setup of the downlink decoder!) to see how Taurus-1 is really doing, it's safe to say that it's very much alive!
-Scott, K4KDR
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 7:21 AM Vincenzo Mone via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi folks,
Please anybody can tell me the status of Taurus-1?
Is it still alive?
Thanks
Enzo
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