Some of you may have heard that a team in the UK are trying to re-contact and old British launched satellite for the anniversary of its launch (28th October 1971).
We've been given a licence to transmit and will be testing our re-engineered ground-segment in the next fortnight. The passes we are going to concentrate on will be as far out west as possible, as to minimise QRM from Europe. Earth is a lot more EM noisy than it was in 1971.
If anyone in the UK wants to try and tune in to the downlink, you can help ID any response we get from the old bird. The passes are summarised here:
https://public.sheet.zoho.com/public/rjaduthie/prospero-passes-in-the-next-f...
There are other passes, though these are the ones which are out west. We'll see how we do.
-Roger
Nice !
I am not in the UK but would like listen for this old bird.
I found the following TLE on space-track
PROSPERO (BLACK ARROW) 1 05580U 71093A 11291.61144574 +.00002376 +00000-0 +56163-3 0 09176 2 05580 082.0410 258.8711 0544021 299.6964 055.1125 13.90307377003077
What download freq and modulation can we listen for?
73 Jan PE0SAT
On Wed, October 19, 2011 15:29, Roger Duthie wrote:
Some of you may have heard that a team in the UK are trying to re-contact and old British launched satellite for the anniversary of its launch (28th October 1971).
We've been given a licence to transmit and will be testing our re-engineered ground-segment in the next fortnight. The passes we are going to concentrate on will be as far out west as possible, as to minimise QRM from Europe. Earth is a lot more EM noisy than it was in 1971.
If anyone in the UK wants to try and tune in to the downlink, you can help ID any response we get from the old bird. The passes are summarised here:
https://public.sheet.zoho.com/public/rjaduthie/prospero-passes-in-the-next-f...
There are other passes, though these are the ones which are out west. We'll see how we do.
-Roger
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Roger J A Duthie m0rja
See also Prospero real-time oribtal tracking page http://www.vk3ukf.com/Space/GadgetSatProspero.htm
Audio recordings of the 0.3 watt phase modulated signal with 2048 bit/s PCM from Prospero on 137.560 MHz can be heard on the Sounds from Space site of Matthias Bopp DD1US http://www.dd1us.de/spacesounds%204.html
73 Trevor M5AKA A free sample of the AMSAT-UK newsletter is available at http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf Join AMSAT-UK at http://tinyurl.com/JoinAMSAT-UK/
--- On Wed, 19/10/11, PE0SAT pe0sat@vgnet.nl wrote:
Nice !
I am not in the UK but would like listen for this old bird.
I found the following TLE on space-track
PROSPERO (BLACK ARROW) 1 05580U 71093A 11291.61144574 +.00002376 +00000-0 +56163-3 0 09176 2 05580 082.0410 258.8711 0544021 299.6964 055.1125 13.90307377003077
What download freq and modulation can we listen for?
73 Jan PE0SAT
At 14:29 19/10/2011, you wrote:
Some of you may have heard that a team in the UK are trying to re-contact and old British launched satellite for the anniversary of its launch (28th October 1971).
We've been given a licence to transmit and will be testing our re-engineered ground-segment in the next fortnight. The passes we are going to concentrate on will be as far out west as possible, as to minimise QRM from Europe. Earth is a lot more EM noisy than it was in 1971.
If anyone in the UK wants to try and tune in to the downlink, you can help ID any response we get from the old bird. The passes are summarised here:
The Prospero Satellite was featured in a BBC program called "Coast" It was in the program BBC.Coast Series 2 Episode 1 Dover to Isle of White. It shows an attempt to receive the signals, which appeared to be successful, showing the frequencies on the AR2000 ( I think) RX. I have that episode, and have extracted the section that deals with it, you can get it ( 9.5Mb .avi) at http://www.taghill.co.uk/dmf/files/prospero.avi
The entire program also deals with the research into the propellants, and the launch from Australia, but is far to big to upload!
Let me know if this was useful...
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