Hi,
If "we" is the hams arournd the world I think most of us we ready to rock and roll then some. Im not sure what did or didn't happen. I just hope they do somthing before July a re run of the test is a thought.
73 kc9pxz Jimmy ----- Original Message ----- From: G0MRF@aol.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:11 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 battery.
Hi Nitin / Vince.
Although the non appearance of ARISSat-1 has been a little disappointing, in the overall scheme of things we are still looking at a major AMSAT achievement here. There is after all a satellite awaiting 'launch' on the ISS. We know it's a success because so many people have named it and want it to be identified as belonging to them. We even have some working telemetry decoding software 3 months ahead of launch. - Yipee.
I'm really not sure what all the confusion over the last few days tells us. Prepared press releases full of mistakes, a complete lack of preperation following the long period of testing which left the battery delpleted. No plan B to charge it during the sleep period - One wonders if the switches were even returned to the correct positions when it was last turned off.
Despite a turbulent last few days, the main event is yet to come and as long as the designers have anticipated it being deployed with a completely flat battery, then we can all sit back and wait for July more prepared from this rehearsal than we would have been.
Regards
David G0MRF
In a message dated 12/04/2011 21:13:19 GMT Standard Time, vlfiscus@mcn.net writes:
At 10:49 PM 4/11/2011 +0530, vu3tyg@amsatindia.org wrote:
Nothing heard on the 16.20 UTC pass, watch the live feed from ISS from http://spaceflight.nasa.gov looks like the crew is working on addressing
the
issue, the last comment I heard is recharging the batteries ( Please
excuse
if I am wrong J ).
73's
Nitin [VU3TYG]
That's what I was thinking because someone should have heard it by now. Maybe in two months pass the time since it should launched, even though it was off there might have been a small drain on the batteries and now they're in a discharge state.
KB7ADL
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