Hello,

The CAMSAT CAS-5A amateur radio satellite will be piggybacked on the Smart Dragon-3 Y1 launch vehicle and launched from the sea launch platform in the Yellow Sea at UTC 06:35:02 on December 9.

CAS-5A deployment orbital elements:

Flight Time                                                 724.670s
Semi-major axis                                         6926.918 Km
eccentricity                                                 8.143e-04
Orbital inclination                                         97.524��
Pergee height (relative to equatorial radius)          543.140km
Apogee altitude (relative to equatorial radius)    554.422km
Longitude of the ascending node                 298.491��
Perigee angle (for reference only)                188.413��
True near point angle (for reference only)         344.096��
Flat near point angle (for reference only)              344.121��
Orbital period                                                5737.479 s
Absolute speed                                        7591.699 m/s
Absolute speed local inclination                       -1.278e-02��
Geodetic longitude                                        119.477��
Geographic latitude                                        7.475��
voyage                                                        3336.983 km

The user's manual of CAS-5A satellite will be available later.

CAMSAT is looking for the CW beacon and telemetry monitoring.

73!
Alan Kung, BA1DU





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