CubeSats with Ham Radio Payloads Deployed

CubeSat deployment pods on top of the Bion-M1 spacecraft BeeSat-2, BeeSat-3 and SOMP are in the three 1U Launchers in the front OSSI-1 is a 1U and alone in a 3U-Pod behind left DOVE-2 is a 3U Cubesat and fills the 3U-Pod behind right

CubeSat deployment pods on top of the Bion-M1 spacecraft
BeeSat-2, BeeSat-3 and SOMP are in the three 1U Launchers in the front
OSSI-1 is a 1U and alone in a 3U-Pod behind left
DOVE-2 is a 3U Cubesat and fills the 3U-Pod behind right

The BeeSat-2, BeeSat-3 and SOMP CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads were deployed from the Bion-M1 spacecraft on Sunday, April 21.

Signals from BeeSat-2 and SOMP have been received by Mike Rupprecht DK3WN, see

SOMP CW beacon active http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=32685

BeeSat-2 CW beacon active http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=32683

Satellite        Downlink                Mode
———-       —————          ——————
OSSI-1        145.980/437.525   CW and 1200bps FSK AX.25
SOMP         437.485               1200, 9600bps BPSK
BEESAT-2   435.950               4800bps GMSK Mobitex
BEESAT-3   435.950               4800bps GMSK Mobitex
Bion-M1      Biological research satellite
AIST           Russian student microsatellite that aims to measure the Earth’s geomagnetic field (435 MHz downlink, 145 MHz command uplink)
Dove-2        Commercial technology demonstration mission (450 MHz band downlink)

Further information at https://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/17/soyuz-cubesat-launch/

Keps / TLE’s:

BEESAT-2
1 99999U BEESAT-2 13111.50000000 -.00000022  00000-0 -18943-5 0 00009
2 99999 065.0052 026.5594 0011818 218.6713 261.0081 14.97601851000171
BEESAT-3
1 99998U BEESAT-3 13111.50000000 -.00000022  00000-0 -18943-5 0 00009
2 99998 065.0052 026.5594 0011818 218.6713 261.0081 14.97601851000170