All I have to say here is "Pollyanna is alive and well". The spin machine goes into action. See below.

Tom Schuessler, N5HYP

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Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 battery. From: G0MRF@xxxxxxx Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:11:21 EDT

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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

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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat Deactivation From: Bruce kk5do@xxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:27:26 -0500

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this is why we did not hear it....they had the 430mhz transmitter turned on... was anyone listening to the 70cm frequency? all the preparations on 2m and we were in the wrong place.

Afterwards, Dmitri performed hardware deactivation & close-out activities on the TEKh-43 Radioskaf-B "Kedr" test microsatellite in the MRM2 Poisk module which had been connected to an 825M3 Orlan battery and operated its 430 MHz transmitter yesterday.

73...bruce