First-MOVE is a CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
Watch First-MOVE Vibration Tests
First-MOVE CubeSat Solar Panel Deployment Video https://amsat-uk.org/2012/04/02/first-move-cubesat-solar-panel-deployment-video/
A Japan-Broadcasting Corporation TV report from 2007 featuring Mike Watanabe JH1KRC has just been made available on YouTube.
The YouTube description reads:
KDDI, one of the Japanese telecommunication services companies, has assigned to make experimental cooperation with the Project BIG-DISH, composed of some forty Japanese moon bouncers, and JARL.
We will use the antenna IBA-4, which is the 4th antenna of Ibaraki Satellite Communications Center, KDDI Corporation, for the experimental moon bounce operation on 144, 432, 1296 and possibly 5760 MHz bands. IBA-4 is a 32-metre Cassegrain dish made by Mitshubishi Electric Corporation in 1980’s, and is located in the grid QM06.
The IBA-4 is fully rotable and the elevation is possible up to 90 degrees for automatic moon tracking. The largest problem we have is that we cannot remove the subreflector, 2.9-m in diameter, about 9 metres in front of the main reflector. Therefore we have to use this subreflector in some way for the EME operation.
Our EME operation license is still waiting for the four bands, 144, 432, 1296, and 5760 MHz. The 5760 MHz high power moon bounce transmission is still in discussion in the ministry. Other bands are sure to be licensed for the operation with 500 watts output. We will use callsign 8N1EME. The intensive operating modes are CW, SSB, and JT65 specially on 144 and possiby on 432 also. Fundamentally, we think that random QSOs are most important, although, some scheduled QSOs may be considered for any special reason. Antennas in use will be vertilac pol. on 144 and 432 MHz, the usual EME circular pol. on 1296, and 5760 MHz.
The operation took place late February and early March, in 2007.
Watch 8N1EME-NHK-NEWS(NHK(Japan-Broadcasting Corp.))
Project Big Dish http://8n1eme.jp/
Poland’s national society the Polski Związek Krótkofalowców (PZK) has announced new frequency allocations for the Amateur and Amateur-satellite Services.
The frequency range 2400-2450 MHz has been allocated to the Amateur-satellite Service and it is understood that one of the BRITE-PL amateur radio nanosats will be making use of this allocation.
In addition frequency allocations of 70.1-70.3 MHz and 3400-3410 MHz have been made available to the Amateur Service.
Some of the students who worked on the Amateur Radio CubeSat PW-SAT (launched January, 2012) went on to work on the development of the two BRITE-PL nanosats.
Polski Związek Krótkofalowców (PZK) in Google English
http://tinyurl.com/PolandPZK
BRITE-PL http://www.brite-pl.pl/index_en.html
BRITE Project http://www.utias-sfl.net/docs/LivePapersAsOfJan2011/BRITE-COSPAR2010-PaperSR-WW-REZ-SM-AS-TM.pdf
BRITE TV http://www.uk.amsat.org/3054
IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages hosted by AMSAT-UK http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/
The IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel have announced coordinated frequencies for two new CubeSats.
The downlink frequencies announced are:
TechEdSat – 437.465 MHz
HumSAT-D – 437.365 MHz
IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Status http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/
To assist builders and prospective builders of satellites that will operate on frequencies allocated by the ITU to the Amateur Service, a comprehensive set of guidelines have been produced, see http://www.iaru.org/satellite/
First-MOVE is a CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
MOVE stands for München Orbital Verification Experiment. The 1U CubeSat has two deployable solar panels carrying a new generation of solar cell. First-MOVE also carries a CCD camera.
Despite the narrow bandwidth data channel high quality pictures can be taken and transfered to Earth using a specially developed algorithm which filters the pictures due to content (Space, Earth horizon), compresses them, fragments them to small data packages and generates thumbnails for preview.
First-MOVE completed integration in April 2012.
Watch First-MOVE Flap Panel Deployment Test
Watch First-MOVE Complete Integration
Imagine reaching the Moon using just a tenth of a liter of fuel. With their ionic motor, MicroThrust, EPFL scientists and their European partners are making this a reality, ushering in a new era of low-cost space exploration.
Watch EPFL – A Couple Drops of Fuel to Get to the Moon with MicroThrust
The goal is to provide efficient propulsion systems for nanosatellites (1-100 kg), which are currently stuck in whatever orbit they were initially placed: the plan is to free them to allow nanosatellites to perform orbital maneuvering, and missions to the Moon, to Near Earth Objects, or even to Mars.
Read Micromachined Propulsion systems for very small satellites http://lmts.epfl.ch/microthrust
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