23 May
2021
23 May
'21
9:43 a.m.
Good Evening All,
The first 3B8 satellite will be sent to the ISS (by JAXA) on the NASA SpaceX resupply mission-22 on the 3rd of June 2021 and will be deployed in June by the KIBO robotic arm.
The callsign is 3B8MIR (MIR-1 meaning Mauritius Imagery & Radio-communication Satellite 1).
Payloads are a camera and a digipeater (bent tube) which will be made available to the HAM community worldwide when satellite not downloading images or used for experimental purposes, the uplink will be on 145.9875 MHz and the downlink on 436.925 MHz, 9K2 GMSK, as coordinated with IARU.
More information will be available on https://spacemauritius.com https://spacemauritius.com/ soon.
Will keep you updated on the progress.
73
Jean Marc (3B8DU)