Greetings from the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park (BP) here in the UK.
FUNcube-1 was launched, on time, at 07:10:11 UTC this morning from Yasny and approximately 8 minutes later, was deployed from the upper stage of the dnepr rocket.
About 10 minutes after separation, telemetry was successfully been received, decoded, and uploaded to the data warehouse by ZS1LS (at 07:37) and ZS6BMN in South Africa. There was a huge cheer here at BP and the FUNcube-1 Project team toasted the successful launch .
All main parameters on FUNcube look nominal; temp, battery voltage, solar panel charging rate, etc and the data received so far is available in the Data Warehouse. We are already seeing some superb examples of the data that will be fundamental to the educational aspect of FUNcube - thank you to all stations around the world for your efforts so far.
The first signals from FUNcube-1 were heard in the UK on the first visible pass at 3 degrees above the horizon and Mike, G0MJW, became the first UK station to receive and decode the telemetry from FUNcube-1 - congratulations Mike.
We are continuing our efforts here at the NRC and have just heard FUNcube-1 on its second pass over the UK at 4 degrees above the horizon. We have successfully commanded FUNcube-1 on the first attempt. We encourage all stations to continue to receive the telemetry and upload it to the Data Warehouse as we monitor the spacecraft and continue with the early operations tasks.
Thank you all for your efforts and we look forward to further reports from around the world.
For the FUNcube-1 Project team.
Web Stream : http://www.batc.tv/streams/funcube1
FUNcube website : http://funcube.org.uk