Tomorrow, Saturday March 17th, is the date of the Manatee Co. FL Boy Scout
Camporee. This year's campout is centered around experiencing amateur radio.
There will be several stations setup covering several bands. AMSAT will also
have a station operating as many satellites and passes as possible on
Saturday. The calls being used will be KU4OS and AA4KN. We would appreciate
contacts with as many stations as possible.
We invited you to listen out for us and be a part of this event.
Dave, AA4KN
Would AMSAT Ever Existed..If this had not occurred....
Friday March 16
On this day in 1926, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel
rocket. But he was first noticed in 1907 when a cloud of smoke issued
from a powder rocket fired in the basement of the physics building in
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Needless to say, the school took an
interest in the work of this shy student. Thankfully they did not expel
him, and thus began his lifetime of work in rocket science. Goddard was
also the first to realize the full implications of rocketry for
missiles and space flight, and his lifetime of work was dedicated to
bringing this vision to realization. While most of what he did went
unrecognized for many years, today we celebrate the name of Robert H.
Goddard. This first flight may have gone only 12 meters, but forty
years later on the date of his birth, Gemini 8 was launched, carrying
Neil Armstrong and David Scott into orbit!
It appears that Space-Track jumped the gun in naming FalconSat-3
Object Number 30776 in their Kep listing earlier in the week. This
mornings their keps for that launch have reverted back to Object
Letters, A to G. So your guess is as good as any as to who's who up
there. But some of the object orbits are pretty far out as to be any
of the payloads. Maybe rocket stages?
My limited monitoring of the FalconSat 435.100 down link frequency,
when it's in mutual view of Colorado and Florida, has not produced
any results.
Might just have to wait till it gets finished with it primary science
mission and becomes a ham radio satellite before you will hear it.
And who knows when that will be. ;-)
73 Keith N4ZQ
OBJECT A
1 30772U 07006A 07074.42289320 .00000107 00000-0 16708-4 0 120
2 30772 046.0302 070.2180 0005574 303.1833 056.8531 15.23667753 964
OBJECT B
1 30773U 07006B 07072.52310296 -.00000229 +00000-0 +28920-5 0 00101
2 30773 046.0294 080.3799 0003029 289.3694 070.6843 15.23096263000676
OBJECT C
1 30774U 07006C 07073.43939559 .00000009 00000-0 12708-4 0 79
2 30774 046.0300 075.4581 0005523 297.9516 062.0834 15.23666270 810
OBJECT D
1 30775U 07006D 07074.23996200 .00000615 00000-0 48558-4 0 92
2 30775 035.4361 062.2189 0002393 345.2887 014.7760 15.02471494 910
OBJECT E
1 30776U 07006E 07073.37545388 .00000234 00000-0 20278-4 0 102
2 30776 035.4336 067.3946 0001589 333.6280 026.4355 15.02652214 780
OBJECT F
1 30777U 07006F 07074.37435352 .00000321 00000-0 27046-4 0 98
2 30777 035.4333 061.3974 0003901 332.1014 027.9492 15.02107998 931
OBJECT G
1 30778U 07006G 07074.19292839 .00013602 00000-0 71658-3 0 149
2 30778 035.7048 062.7357 0032746 278.9557 080.7459 15.14406751 905
For those tracking the recently launched (March 9th) FalconSat-3
satellite, it appears that after less then a week on orbit Space-
Track has identified it as follows:
Catalog Number: 30776
International Designator: 2007-006E
FALCONSAT-3
1 30776U 07006E 07072.17947697 .00000382 00000-0 31138-4 0 97
2 30776 035.4336 074.6436 0001633 325.9510 034.1076 15.02652019 605
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 03:30:04 +0000
From: Lori Brooks <lorikix(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: [CubeSat] Revision to Dnepr II manifest
To: "cubesat(a)atl.calpoly.edu" <cubesat(a)atl.calpoly.edu>
The mainfest sent out earlier regarding the March 26 (PDT) launch had
incorrect information. Here is the corrected one:P-POD A (first to
eject):CP4 (California Polytechnic State University)
AeroCube-2 (The Aerospace Corporation)CSTB1 (The Boeing Company)P-POD C
(second to eject):MAST (Tethers Unlimited/Stanford University)P-POD B
(third
to eject):CP3 (California Polytechnic Stat University)CAPE1
(University of Louisiana)Libertad-1 (La Universidad Sergio Arboleda)My
sincerest apologies to the MAST and Libertad-1 teams for incorrect
acknowledgment. I've been a tad sleep deprived with preparations. Any and
all other corrections will be made on our website (www.cubesat.org).Lori
BrooksCubeSat Program Manager
_________________________________________________________________
One of these objects being tracked by Space-Track, from a launch on
March 9, might be FalconSat 3. Only time will tell and Space-Track
figures out who is who. Can't wait for the 26 payload Dnepr launch on
27 March to see how long it takes to sort things out.
Anyone know what mode FalconSat will come up in, when it does? I
figured they be testing all it's capabilities this week. Keep an ear
tuned to 435.100. Especially when FalconSat 3 is in mutual view of
Florida and the Air Force Academy, 14 miles north of Colorado Springs
Colorado.
Happy Satellite Tracking and SWLing...
Keith N4ZQ
OBJECT A
1 30772U 07006A 07068.45633006 .00002142 00000-0 10000-3 0 51
2 30772 046.0295 102.0143 0006000 270.4620 089.5618 15.23670341 59
OBJECT B
1 30773U 07006B 07068.45645188 .00002103 00000-0 10000-3 0 31
2 30773 046.0285 102.0330 0003546 270.9021 089.1449 15.23104633 53
OBJECT C
1 30774U 07006C 07068.19406443 .00085193 00000-0 34644-2 0 19
2 30774 046.0294 103.4111 0005919 273.9439 086.0782 15.23632597 15
OBJECT D
1 30775U 07006D 07068.45870182 -.00000042 00000-0 00000+0 0 22
2 30775 035.4363 097.2506 0002774 300.9463 059.1136 15.02474466 40
OBJECT E
1 30776U 07006E 07068.45865975 -.00000042 00000-0 00000+0 0 38
2 30776 035.4319 097.2004 0001518 293.5210 066.5363 15.02659170 48
OBJECT F
1 30777U 07006F 07068.45876093 -.00000042 00000-0 00000+0 0 32
2 30777 035.4314 097.2278 0004203 287.1546 072.8718 15.02115934 30
OBJECT G
1 30778U 07006G 07068.45682551 -.00000056 00000-0 00000+0 0 32
2 30778 035.6972 098.0256 0034009 236.1073 123.6729 15.13921952 38
We had a great view of the launch tonight. The Atlas is dimmer than the
Shuttle or Delta launches, but a nice crimson color. We talked about the
launch on the Florida AMSAT net at 730PM, and had several guys outside for
both the 88 degree pass of AO-51 at 830 and watching the launch at 1010
while discussing it on the local repeater system.
Good Luck Falconsat-3.
73, Drew KO4MA
*NASA* Space Shuttle Audio ON 21:08 321472
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