This launch has been postponed. I will provide a new launch date when it has been determined.

Please let me know any questions.

Thanks,

Mike Miller KE7EGC

Please put the following on the bb and on the ANS.

PreSat and NanoSail-D Beacon Alerts

Santa Clara University students invite amateur radio operators worldwide

to participate with them by receiving beacon signals from PreSat and NanoSail-D, two pioneering cubesat missions that will launch from the Reagan Test Site (Omelek Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of Marshall Islands) on June 23, 2008 at about 7:00 pm PDT. Both spacecraft will go into Low Earth Orbit as secondary payloads aboard a SpaceX Falcon-1 launch

vehicle. The vehicles will be launched into a 685x330 km, 9 degree

orbit,

with line of site communications only possible at low latitudes. PreSat

is a 10 x 10 x 30 cm. spacecraft, that will evaluate the performance of a

generic biofluidic sample management and handling system for future

advanced in situ spaceborne biology experiments. NanoSail-D is a 10 x 10

x 30 cm. spacecraft, which will deploy a solar sail that also will be

used

as a drag sail to demonstrate orbital debris mitigation technology.

These

missions follow the earlier efforts of Santa Clara U. students in

launching Genesat 1, in 2006.

Of particular interest to the amateur radio satellite community are the

PreSat and NanoSail-D beacons. The PreSat beacon will operate at 437.318

MHz FM, sending an AX.25 packet every 5 seconds; the packet contains

data

about the spacecraft systems operation. The NanoSail-D beacon will

operate at 437.269 MHz FM, sending an AX.25 packet every 10 seconds; the packet contains data about the spacecraft systems operation. The beacons

will initiate transmission as soon as each spacecraft is deployed from

their separate carriers, which are attached to a Ride Share Adapter. Amateur radio operators are encouraged to submit received beacon packets through the mission websites in order to receive a web-based QSL card.

The PreSat mission website at www.presat.org; the NanoSail-D mission

website is at www.nanosaild.org. These sites provide general mission and spacecraft information, instructions on how to contact the Santa Clara University PreSat and NanoSail-D Mission Operations teams, and the latest

orbit datam beacon packet format, and other information needed to work

the

beacons.

73,

Mike Miller KE7EGC