Hi Mark / group

Thanks for that.

If you've run the keps you will have seen that the satellites will be over the East Coast of the USA just 15 minutes after they start transmitting. AOS for the East coast is around 1 hour 50 minutes after launch. Some of the University ground stations will not hear their own signals for 5 hours.

From launch, Vega travels north up the Atlantic and deploys the cubesats about half an orbit later to the south of Australia.

Allowing a little time to move apart, the sats start transmitting over the Pacific to the West of Chile. 15 mins later they are in range of Florida and the East coast. The telemetry and signal levels should be interesting as they seem to be in almost constant sunlight and the altitude varies from 1450km down to 300km.

www.videocorner.tv for launch coverage.

73

David

-----Original Message----- From: Mark L. Hammond marklhammond@gmail.com To: Trevor . m5aka@yahoo.co.uk; amsat-bb amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:00 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Preliminary TLE's For Mondays Vega Launch

Here is an updated version of the info for SatPC32, to match the name/case in the TLE's posted by Trever.

MASAT,437345.0,145950,USB,FM,Nor,0,0,GFSK 625/1250BPS,CW ALMASat-1,437465.0,145950,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 packet ALMASat-1,2407850.0,435100.0,FM,FM,Nor,2256000.0,0, Sband FM UNICUBESAT,437305.0,145950,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,9k6 packet UNICUBESAT,437345.0,145950,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,9k6 packet PW-SAT,145900.0,435020.0,USB,FM,Nor,0,0,12kBPSK and xpdr PW-SAT,145902.0,435032.0,USB,FM,Nor,0,0,12kBPSK and xpdr GOLIAT,437485,145900.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK ESTAR,437445,145900.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK ROBUSTA,437325,145900.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK XATCOBEO,437365,145940.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK Simplex XATCOBEO,145940.0,437365,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK SSR dwnlnk

By the way---if you are having trouble with the TLEs as posted---try opening the .TXT file from within Word; copy the info, and paste into a new .TXT file. That fixed the LF/CR issues I was seeing...

73,

Mark N8MH

At 05:23 PM 2/12/2012 +0000, Trevor . wrote:

Preliminary sets of TLE's for a launch at 1000, 1100 or 1200 UT are available

via

http://www.uk.amsat.org/4460

73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/

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