ISS Amateur Radio CubeSats Deployed

SDR image of the LituanicaSAT-1 beacon taken by Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD

SDR image of the LituanicaSAT-1 beacon taken by Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD

On Friday, February 28, 2014 at 0730 UT astronaut Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA deployed a batch of amateur radio CubeSats from the International Space Station (ISS).

Deployment of Amateur Radio CubeSats from ISS 2014-02-28-0730

Deployment of Amateur Radio CubeSats from ISS 2014-02-28-0730

LituanicaSAT-1, LitSat-1, ArduSat-2 (2U), UAPSAT and the 915 MHz SkyCube were successfully ejected from a NanoRacks deployment pod.

At 0855 UT Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD received the LituanicaSAT-1 beacon. and received LitSat-1 at 1030 UT.

At 1022 UT Mike Rupprecht DK3WN received LitSat-1. Mike had heard UAPSAT at 0845 UT.

There is another amateur radio Cubesat still on the ISS, the Peruvian Chasqui-1 which was launched to the space station on February 5, 2014. It is understood that Chasqui 1 is scheduled to be hand-deployed during a future Russian Extravehicular Activity (EVA).

Frequency information at https://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/20/iss-cubesat-deployments-to-resume-february-25/

UB4UAD website in Google English http://tinyurl.com/UB4UAD

DK3WN satellite blog http://www.dk3wn.info/p/

SDR image of the LitSat-1 beacon taken by Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD

SDR image of the LitSat-1 beacon taken by Dmitry Pashkov UB4UAD