Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:11:50 +0000 (GMT) From: "Trevor ." m5aka@yahoo.co.uk To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] ChubuSat-1 Message-ID: 1321643510.46353.YahooMailClassic@web27204.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Google English article on ChubuSat-1, launch 2012-13, carries a V/U configuration using AX25, see

http://tinyurl.com/CubuSat1Article

See also ChubuSat-1 on IARU satellite pages at http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=199

73 Trevor M5AKA

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:37:52 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: "Trevor ." m5aka@yahoo.co.uk, amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ChubuSat-1 Message-ID: < 7790483.1321645073377.JavaMail.root@mswamui-billy.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

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50kg! to SSO? I hope they manage to get a repeater or transponder on there along with whatever digital relay it looks like they are planning. It might be a good opportunity for a PE1RAH transponder, or the L/U repeater AMSAT-OZ was developing!

73, Drew KO4MA

Wow! 50kg, and 3-axis stabilized! I'm guessing Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries is funding and building the bus and the universities are providing the payload. I wonder why the life ("lifetime in orbit") is only predicted to be 6 months? Aren't most SSO orbits somewhat higher than LEO? I'd think that with that much mass and higher it would last longer. Or maybe it is a poor translation and the limitation is consumables (like fuel)...

Anyway, it will be interesting to see if there are some cool pictures if nothing else!

Burns, W2BFJ