Hi Stuart, As of right now, ARISSat-1 is up. Telemetry has come in from multiple ground stations within the last few minutes.
Depending on the orbit, there is often a delay between the time when ARISSat comes out of eclipse and the time when it starts transmitting telemetry. If anyone in the satellite's footprint is running ARISSatTLM and sending telemetry into the Internet telemetry server, then the telemetry web pages will get updated (within about a minute). Note that sometimes the orbit takes the satellite out over the Pacific and over areas of the world without any active ground stations (that receive the telemetry), so it can be two or three hours before ARISSat-1 goes over another groundstation that is submitting telemetry and hence the web page could be two or three hours "old" and that does not indicate a problem.
The telemetry web pages are at
http://www.arissattlm.org/mobile
and
http://www.arissattlm.org/live
73, Douglas KA2UPW/5
-----Original Message----- From: Stuart Balanger wa2bss@gmail.com To: AMSAT-BB AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Sent: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 9:04 am Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 Silent? (& Request)
*Hi All,
I was listening on the 145.95 Voice telemetry Beacon Freq. @ 1310 UTC pass here in ENY & didn't hear a peep from ARISSat-1 , & was wondering if it has gone silent? My Grid Square is FN31! 73,.Stu (WA2BSS)