Re: [amsat-bb] ICESat-2 (ELaNa-XVIII -18) CubeSats freq & TLEs
Scott & Fredy,
Thanks for your passes so far. ELFIN A & B have been successfully demoded and commanded and are healthy. DAVE has passed similar milestones. SurfSat sadly does not beacon but I hope to hear good news from the UCF team soon. The 2018-070B/C/D/E objects in tle-new.txt are pretty great. We expect ELFIN A is the leading-most satellite, and ELFIN B is the trailing-most, but of course it is too early to know for sure.
B is in a slightly lower orbit and should overtake A, especially once we deploy our magnetometer's stacer boom and get some differential drag started (possibly as early as Thursday). We want them to spread apart a bit to make our passes easier!
Please send any pass contacts to [email protected] and we'll ingest the beacon data into our database. Once we're commissioned and collecting science data we are interested in scheduling downlinks over any interested stations.
https://elfin.igpp.ucla.edu/listen-to-elfin/
73,
Ryan NX1U
On 9/15/2018 7:04 PM, Scott [email protected] wrote:
Hey Ryan!
Recorded the 2201utc pass over Eastern USA and just reviewed the signals from that.
No sign of the others, but good decodes from DAVE (please note correct freq. is 437.150); see my tweet w/ pics:
https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1041118626055680001
73!
-Scott, K4KDR
Thanks very much for the submission info! I just emailed my first ELFIN-B decode from a 29° pass this evening.
73!
-Scott, K4KDR
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Caron [email protected] wrote:
Scott & Fredy,
Thanks for your passes so far. ELFIN A & B have been successfully demoded and commanded and are healthy. DAVE has passed similar milestones. SurfSat sadly does not beacon but I hope to hear good news from the UCF team soon. The 2018-070B/C/D/E objects in tle-new.txt are pretty great. We expect ELFIN A is the leading-most satellite, and ELFIN B is the trailing-most, but of course it is too early to know for sure.
B is in a slightly lower orbit and should overtake A, especially once we deploy our magnetometer's stacer boom and get some differential drag started (possibly as early as Thursday). We want them to spread apart a bit to make our passes easier!
Please send any pass contacts to [email protected] and we'll ingest the beacon data into our database. Once we're commissioned and collecting science data we are interested in scheduling downlinks over any interested stations.
https://elfin.igpp.ucla.edu/listen-to-elfin/
73,
Ryan NX1U
On 9/15/2018 7:04 PM, Scott [email protected] wrote:
Hey Ryan!
Recorded the 2201utc pass over Eastern USA and just reviewed the signals from that.
No sign of the others, but good decodes from DAVE (please note correct freq. is 437.150); see my tweet w/ pics:
https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1041118626055680001
73!
-Scott, K4KDR
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