I wonder if it will sit until July?
After all the Russians KEDR name reflects the upcoming anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. That was 50yrs ago on 12th April.
So many questions....
David
In a message dated 13/02/2011 08:28:12 GMT Daylight Time, orbitjet@hotmail.com writes:
Interesting comments:
"During the test, RSC-Energia decided to keep the transmitter on until Friday morning. "
Hmmm curious about a few things but... what impact this "test" has had on battery life, considering the vehicle now "sits" until at least July...
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO life member AMSAT/ARRL soon to be NAARS and 5Nsomething
There was a posting that alluded activation on April 12 but I find nothing on the Russian site about ARISSat-1. I suppose they could connect it to the test antenna on the ISS like they just did.
A lot of questions about the battery condition waiting for a launch in July. I would suppose there was a external power jack provided for testing. Could that power ARRISSat-1 from the ISS power systems for recharging/test transmissions? This is a question and not based on any knowledge I have about what it has.
July launch gives me time to restore my tracking antenna systems after being damaged by wind in Dec. I will probably get the antennas remounted sooner, but I still have to T/S and repair the B5400 controller.
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 05:38 AM 2/13/2011, G0MRF@aol.com wrote:
I wonder if it will sit until July?
After all the Russians KEDR name reflects the upcoming anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. That was 50yrs ago on 12th April.
So many questions....
David
In a message dated 13/02/2011 08:28:12 GMT Daylight Time, orbitjet@hotmail.com writes:
Interesting comments:
"During the test, RSC-Energia decided to keep the transmitter on until Friday morning. "
Hmmm curious about a few things but... what impact this "test" has had on battery life, considering the vehicle now "sits" until at least July...
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO life member AMSAT/ARRL soon to be NAARS and 5Nsomething
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--- On Sun, 13/2/11, G0MRF@aol.com G0MRF@aol.com wrote:
I wonder if it will sit until July?
After all the Russians KEDR name reflects the upcoming anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. That was 50yrs ago on 12th April.
So many questions....
Indeed, the Russian Federal Space website says that Kedr (ARISSat-1) will be "Activated" on April 12 and you can see this can be acheived by connecting ARISSat-1 to the ISS antenna as they did on Feb 10.
I'd like to express my thanks to all the ARISSat team volunteers who've been working so hard recently to get the telemetry decoding software, Website/twitter and other activites all ready for Feb 16. The deployment of ARISSat-1 was originally planned for the end of Feb and was then brought forward by 2 weeks so the volunteers must have been working flat out to get everything ready.
It now looks like we have to wait until July for deployment but that's Space for you, it's a high risk arena - nothings certain. I look forward to July.
73 Trevor M5AKA
Indeed, the Russian Federal Space website says that Kedr
(ARISSat-1) will be "Activated" on April 12 and you can see this can be acheived by connecting ARISSat-1 to the ISS antenna as they did on Feb 10..
curious how that works with "battery" life. It is kind of interesting that the Energia folks seem to have thought this one up on their own, it seems to have caught the AMSAT folks a tad by surprise...
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO
One more "curious" thing
If the "sat package" can be switched on and "run" for some period of time...then why not just keep it on the space station and hook it up to external power...and well then its a better package...? Because if it cannot be hooked up to external power and the battery situation dealt with then the batteries for the Orlan suit) are well going to drain pretty fast given the current use...
Robert G. Oler WB5MZO
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:09:28 +0000 From: m5aka@yahoo.co.uk To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 test
--- On Sun, 13/2/11, G0MRF@aol.com G0MRF@aol.com wrote:
I wonder if it will sit until July?
After all the Russians KEDR name reflects the upcoming anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. That was 50yrs ago on 12th April.
So many questions....
Indeed, the Russian Federal Space website says that Kedr (ARISSat-1) will be "Activated" on April 12 and you can see this can be acheived by connecting ARISSat-1 to the ISS antenna as they did on Feb 10.
I'd like to express my thanks to all the ARISSat team volunteers who've been working so hard recently to get the telemetry decoding software, Website/twitter and other activites all ready for Feb 16. The deployment of ARISSat-1 was originally planned for the end of Feb and was then brought forward by 2 weeks so the volunteers must have been working flat out to get everything ready.
It now looks like we have to wait until July for deployment but that's Space for you, it's a high risk arena - nothings certain. I look forward to July.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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