[amsat-bb] Re: They broke it

While I was also holding my breath as they let the bird bump around loose on the tether etc, I also notice quite early that there appeared to be no antenna on one side of the box. I don't think the cosmonauts doing the deployment broke it off. I think it was not there as it came out the hatch.

Is it the 70cm antenna or the 2m antenna that was missing? If the 2m, perhaps they did not get it re-connected after using the external station antenna last week. OTOH, they may never have hooked up the 70cm and never realized there was one. One of the cosmonauts said (approx) "I've been here for 3 months and it NEVER had another antenna".

Burns, W2BFJ