ISS_KIBO CubeSats deployment Update
The deployment of five CubeSats from the International Space Station (ISS) should take place on Thursday, October 4 commencing with the first pod at 1430 UT and the second at 1535 UT. It is planned to broadcast the deployment live on the web. October 4 is also the 55th anniversary of the launch of the first satellite Sputnik-1.
4th October 2012, First, 14:30-14:40 UTC: Order of WE-WISH, RAIKO by Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide Second, 15:35-15:45 UTC: Order of TechEdSat, NanoRack/F-1, FITSAT-1 by JAXA GS
http://iss.jaxa.jp/iss/jaxa_exp/hoshide/library/live/ http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=10119 http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/sputnik1.htm
JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita
Dear Ham Friends,
Five cubesats are deployed from ISS on 4th October. FITSAT-1 is deployed around 15:40-45 (UTC).
FITSAT starts to send the beacon signal 30 min after deployments. Please send the signal report, telemetry data (if possible) and your postal address to fitsat1@hotmail.co.jp and also cc to tanaka@fit.ac.jp. You will receive the verification card. The orbit is almost the same as ISS.
The beacon frequency 437.250MHz of FITSAT-1 conflicts with the satellite PRISM of Tokyo Univ. Please confirm that the CW starts "HI DE NIWAKA JAPAN ..."
HB9FFH has made a telemetry decoder for FITSAT-1. It is available from Carpcomm website: http://carpcomm.com/satellite/fitsat1
Our student also developed a similar program for windows: http://turing.cs.fit.ac.jp/~fitsat/CWFM/FITSAT_CW_Analyzer1.zip
I will announce news on FITSAT-1 such as LED-experimentations: http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml
Very Best 73 -- Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG tanaka@fit.ac.jp
Five cubesats are deployed from ISS on 4th October. FITSAT-1 is deployed around 15:40-45 (UTC).
Please watch live: http://iss.jaxa.jp/iss/jaxa_exp/hoshide/library/live/
The first starts at 14:10. (UTC) The second starts at 15:25. -- Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG
Hi my friends,
FITSAT-1 was received loud and clear here in France during the last orbit, around 2132 UTC. Congratulation !
J-P/F5YG
I'm helping a Florida group prepare for an ISS school contact. One of their needs is to run SatPC32/SatPC32ISS with an Icom 9100. I tried to run SatPC32ISS this evening on my Win XP machine that I regularly control my 9100 and 847 with, using SatPC32. I never had a need to run the SatPS32ISS program and I'm having a problem. I click on the program to start and it tries to start by displaying an icon on the taskbar, the icon disappears after a few seconds. Nothing shows up on the screen, no errors. Nothing. Does anyone have a clue? I'm only at home a few days a week to try and test this to get it SatPC32ISS working with a 9100 for the group doing the contact. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...
73 Jeff kb2m
Jeff,
I'm not sure you'll consider this to be help, but this intended to be helpful...
I'm also preparing for an ISS contact in four weeks. Our ARISS mentor *strongly* advises against using computer control of the radio. (Computer control of the primary station's Az/El is encouraged. The backup station uses omnidirectional antennas in case the primary station's computer crashes or the Keps are bad, etc.)
Instead, he recommends programming three groups of seven channels (21 channels total) on both the primary and backup radios. One group of 7 channels is for the "primary private" frequency with Doppler shifts (+3 kHz, +2, +1, no shift, -1, -2, and -3 kHz). The second group is for the "backup" frequency pair. The third group is for the standard public 2M frequencies.
The idea is to minimize the number of things that can fail. And to make it very easy to switch frequency pairs if you don't make immediate contact on the primary pair.
I view my ARISS contact as very similar to Field Day, except that I only have one chance at the contact with 600 students in the audience watching my every move, along with members of the media (newspaper, radio, and TV) recording it for posterity and publication.
What could go wrong? ;-)
73, Steve N9IP
P.S. A Microsoft update two weeks ago completely destroyed my XP laptop that I used to run SatPC32. It still won't boot. Note to self: Turn off automatic updates a couple of weeks before the ARISS contact. -- Steve Belter, Indiana Dataline Corp 427 N 6th Street, Suite C Lafayette, IN 47901-2211 Tel: (765) 269-8521 www.indiana-dataline.net
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Jeff KB2M Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:15 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32ISS
I'm helping a Florida group prepare for an ISS school contact. One of their needs is to run SatPC32/SatPC32ISS with an Icom 9100. I tried to run SatPC32ISS this evening on my Win XP machine that I regularly control my 9100 and 847 with, using SatPC32. I never had a need to run the SatPS32ISS program and I'm having a problem. I click on the program to start and it tries to start by displaying an icon on the taskbar, the icon disappears after a few seconds. Nothing shows up on the screen, no errors. Nothing. Does anyone have a clue? I'm only at home a few days a week to try and test this to get it SatPC32ISS working with a 9100 for the group doing the contact. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...
73 Jeff kb2m
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Dear Ham Friends,
... FITSAT starts to send the beacon signal 30 min after deployments. Please send the signal report, telemetry data (if possible) and your postal address to ...
We have received a lot of signal and telemetry reports from amsat members. All reports show FITSAT-1 starts working and sound. Thank you very much for your help.
We will examine movements, temperatures, and battery states of FITSAT-1 during these 10 days, and start experimentations of 5.8GHz transmission and flashing LEDs.
I will announce the experimentations on my web-page: http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml
Best 73 -- Takushi Tanaka JA6AVG
participants (5)
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Jean-Pierre Godet -
Jeff KB2M -
Mineo Wakita -
Stephen E. Belter -
tanaka＠fit.ac.jp