In my haste to get the announcement out I put the wrong time zone in the announcement - it should read
The ARISSat-1 space craft was deployed from the ISS today at 1443 EDT (1843 UTC) after a hold based upon questions about the 70cm antenna.
Congratulations to the ARISSat-1 team! Now bring on those reception reports.
Drew, KO4MA reported that a station in Japan, JR8LWY-QN12 reported on the dcarr site the he receive ARISSat-1 telemetry at 2011-08-03 19:16-:30 UTC.
73, Gould, WA4SXM
The ARISSat-1 space craft was deployed from the ISS today at 1443 EDT (1843 UTC) after a hold based upon questions about the 70cm antenna.
On a frame by frame replay it was even very evident that the satellite has been thrown away just by watching the swing of the central long whip. As the first spacesuit sat issues we will have to have VERY HIGH ERP to be able to be heard on ARISSat-1 in the event of the unconfirmed "yet" UHF antenna status. It was very apparent they want to regain their late time in hurry and they seems to have broken something (Very hard to see even in a frame by frame view as the images are most of the time fuzzy in that mode) in their EVA tool and equipment reteriving from the air lock. Something hit the antenna but the images after this collision are too fuzzy to be able to verify if any dammages where present. They where not even sure how many antenna where installed on it!!!!!
MY EDUCATED GUESS
They broke the UHF antenna in their hurry to get rid of this BOX and they let it go as it was not an essential task!
It will now be interresting to know wich mode are activated to be able to focus our listening task on the right place.
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The ARISSat-1 space craft was deployed from the ISS today at 1443 EDT (1843 UTC) after a hold based upon questions about the 70cm antenna.
One point i forgot in my previous post
Just to confirm the satellite has been deployed in the very first 10 minutes after the cosmonauts where getting out the air lock not at 1443 EDT "NO WAY" something is wrong here!!!
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Luc Leblanc schrieb:
The ARISSat-1 space craft was deployed from the ISS today at 1443 EDT (1843 UTC) after a hold based upon questions about the 70cm antenna.
One point i forgot in my previous post
Just to confirm the satellite has been deployed in the very first 10 minutes after the cosmonauts where getting out the air lock not at 1443 EDT "NO WAY" something is wrong here!!!
Yes, I can confirm this. The hatch was officially opened at 14:50 UTC and ARISSat-1 was deployed at 15:07 UTC. I watched NASA-TV yesterday after 14:00 UTC or 16.00 MESZ. Someone mixed his local time with UTC or GMT I think.
The quoted report is correct. ARISSat-1 was deployed at 1843 UTC. 1507 was the scheduled time, but that did not happen. The cosmonauts were about to deploy the satellite, but were stopped and did not deploy until the antenna problem could be evaluated.
-- Dave, W8AAS
On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Thomas Frey wrote:
Luc Leblanc schrieb:
The ARISSat-1 space craft was deployed from the ISS today at 1443 EDT (1843 UTC) after a hold based upon questions about the 70cm antenna.
One point i forgot in my previous post
Just to confirm the satellite has been deployed in the very first 10 minutes after the cosmonauts where getting out the air lock not at 1443 EDT "NO WAY" something is wrong here!!!
Yes, I can confirm this. The hatch was officially opened at 14:50 UTC and ARISSat-1 was deployed at 15:07 UTC. I watched NASA-TV yesterday after 14:00 UTC or 16.00 MESZ. Someone mixed his local time with UTC or GMT I think.
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