VS-14 -Sentinel-1B and cubesat launch
According to ESA, Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket, flight VS14, from Europe’s Spaceport in Korou, French Guiana on 25 April 2016 at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST).
The three CubeSats, each measuring just 0×10×11 cm, piggybacked a ride on Soyuz are: OUFTI-1 from the University of Liege, Belgium, _e-st@r-II_ (mailto:e-st@r-II) from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and AAUSat-4 from Aalborg University, Denmark. The other passenger is the Microscope satellite from France’s CNES space agency.
(Source: ESA)
Ken Eaton GW1FKY Amsat -UK Amsat NA
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Soyuz_demonstrates
More info about the latest launch. Rick - WB3CSY
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Soyuz_demonstrates_Arianespace_mission_fle... More info about the recent launch (This link should work) Rick - WB3CSY Sent from Rick's iPad2
Hello Ken, all,
Yes, I received AAUSAT-4 around 0545 UTC, orbit number 5 on 437.425 MHz +- 10 kHz Doppler shift (not decoded for the moment), strong signal. There was a CW signal at a moment but as I was in NBFM mode and the time needed to switch to CW or SSB the signal was gone, I just see it on the spectrogram. On the next pass, orbit number 6 around 0720 UTC no CW was heard here, only short digital transmissions.
Unfortunately, absolutly no signal received from the E-st@r-II bird (437.485 MHz)... and I did not try OUFTI-1 as I was busy on 70 cm band.
73+++
Jean-Pierre F5YG
On 26/04/2016 07:41, GW1FKY--- via AMSAT-BB wrote:
According to ESA, Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket, flight VS14, from Europe’s Spaceport in Korou, French Guiana on 25 April 2016 at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST).
The three CubeSats, each measuring just 0×10×11 cm, piggybacked a ride on Soyuz are: OUFTI-1 from the University of Liege, Belgium, _e-st@r-II_ (mailto:e-st@r-II) from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and AAUSat-4 from Aalborg University, Denmark. The other passenger is the Microscope satellite from France’s CNES space agency.
(Source: ESA)
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Hi all,
If anyone is interested in decoding digital telemetry from AAUSAT-4, there is some GNURadio software from Aalborg University that can be used to do so.
More info in my blog: http://destevez.net/2016/04/first-signals-from-aausat-4/
I haven't heard e-st@r-ii either. Apparently its signals are very weak: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=71352 Probably below the noise floor with just an Arrow yagi (DK3WN uses 2x18 or 2x20 yagi, it seems). Perhaps I'll try to listen on an overhead pass.
73,
Dani EA4GPZ.
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