Dear HAM Community,

On the behalf of the GRIFEX team, thanks for all your help in tracking GRIFEX over the past week and a half. The students (and me) working on this mission have had blast working with HAMS all over the world. It seems that everyday someone new engages with the students and lets them know they heard GRIFEX. We'll be making QSL cards shortly so let us know if you need one.

GRIFEX so far is doing great. We're in a sun-sync terminator orbit, so we see the sun all the time. We have plenty of power but we are fairly warm. We have active magnetic control as well that we may try later on so that our colleagues down under can get some better signal reception!

We had about five new students get their HAM license in support of this launch. Anywhere from 5-10 students get their license per year in the lab.

Thanks for your support!

-- James, KF6RFX