CubeSat GeneSat-1 launch 11Dec06 with OSCAR telemetry downlink
Triple-CubeSat GeneSat-1 is scheduled for launch 11Dec06 12:00UT with TacSat-2 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility near Ocean City MD. AX.25 1200bps FM/AFSK telemetry transmissions on 437.075MHz will start immediately after deployment which will be at ~T0+20min.
A GeneSat-1 web page will be available starting 06Dec06 via www.Genesat1.org with latest orbital and telemetry information. There will be a telemetry reception and reporting contest and electronic QSL cards.
Current updated GeneSat-1 information is immediately available via http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/CubeSat.htm.
TNX es 73 de Ralph Wallio, WØRPK W0RPK@netINS.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/ Hubbert's Peak - The Mother of all Perfect Storms
Ralph, Is this the first launch to orbit from Wallops? If so, isnt that a major event?
I havent heard anything about it. Last attempt to reach orbit from Wallops (about 100 miles from here) I was able to stand on my roof and watch it go up... Then down... In flames.
Anyway, we will be watching! Bob, WB4APR
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Triple-CubeSat GeneSat-1 is scheduled for launch 11Dec06 12:00UT with TacSat-2 from NASA Wallops Flight Facility near Ocean City MD. AX.25 1200bps FM/AFSK telemetry transmissions on 437.075MHz will start immediately after deployment which will be at
~T0+20min.
A GeneSat-1 web page will be available starting 06Dec06 via www.Genesat1.org with latest orbital and telemetry information. There will be a telemetry reception and reporting contest and electronic QSL cards.
Current updated GeneSat-1 information is immediately available
via
http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/CubeSat.htm.
TNX es 73 de Ralph Wallio, WØRPK W0RPK@netINS.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/ Hubbert's Peak - The Mother of all Perfect Storms
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Bob --
This is the first Wallops OSCAR launch that I recall but it would take me a few hours of study to prove it. Perhaps some of the others gray-of-beard on this net, e.g., Klein and Clark, already know this is correct.
Preliminary GeneSat-1 info has been in my CubeSat web page for a few months. Now that launch is only a few days out there are updates coming in almost daily. GeneSat-1 web page, www.Genesat1.org, will have a lot more information when they bring it up ~06Dec.
Telecommand will be via a 2.400-2.4835GHz SS high speed ISM link using off-the-shelf transceivers and the 10m dish at Palo Alto. I assume this antenna yields ~45dBi gain at 2.4GHz (given a conservative 50% efficiency) which will yield a ~20dB link margin. A 3m dish would yield a ~10dB link margin but the spread spectrum signal might be difficult to detect even by a well equipped 13cm EME station.
TacSat-2 is the primary Minotaur launch vehicle payload, see http://www.wff.nasa.gov/tacsat2/TacSat-2%20sep-06.pdf. I am waiting for confirmation that the orbit will be close to circular at 410km with a 40d inclination before changing the conflicting information in my web page.
TNX es 73 de Ralph Wallio, WØRPK W0RPK@netINS.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/ Hubbert's Peak - The Mother of all Perfect Storms
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