Tag Archives: BRITE

Feb 26 2013

Reception of UniBRITE amateur radio CW beacon reported from Sudan

AMSAT-UK_Bevelled_LogoUniBrite (CanX 3A) was launched Monday, February 25, on the same rocket as STRaND-1. It has an amateur radio Morse Code beacon on 145.980 MHz.

This report was posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board by Yasir Osman ST2YM in Khartoum, Sudan.

ST2UOK ground station at the University of Khartoum, Sudan has tracked the
first pass over Africa of AAUSAT-3 , STRaND-1 and UniBRITE after the
launching in 12:25 UTC, a CW signal with high noise heard and expected to
be the beacon of the UniBRITE. As pointed by operators Abubakr, Yasir ,
Mustafa and Hala.

BRITE: World’s Smallest Space Telescopes Launching Monday http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=13274

Details of other satellites on the same launch http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=12180

Feb 24 2013

Yahoo: World’s Smallest Space Telescopes Launching Monday

BRITE satellite at UTIAS-SFL - Image credit University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

BRITE satellite at UTIAS-SFL – Image credit University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

The two space telescope satellites launching with STRaND-1 on Feb. 25 at 1225 UT will also be carrying amateur radio payloads

Yahoo report that the two tiny satellites billed as the world’s smallest space telescopes will study the brightest stars in the night sky.

CanX-3a, BRITE (BRIght-star Target Explorer) and TUGSat-1 (Technische Universität Graz Satellit), BRITE–Austria are planned to launch from India with the UK smartphone satellite STRaND-1 on a PSLV-C20 rocket.

The BRITE satellites will carry a 100mW amateur radio beacon on 145.980 MHz  using 15 WPM Morse Code.

See the Yahoo article http://news.yahoo.com/worlds-smallest-space-telescopes-launching-monday-223020950.html

You can follow the launch on Twitter or watch live video at http://www.webcast.gov.in/live/ or http://ibnlive.in.com/livetv/

Information about other satellites on the same launch is here.

Feb 7 2013

ISRO plans SARAL and Amateur Radio satellites launch for February 25

AAUSAT3 Flight Model and Engineering Model - Image credit Aalborg University

AAUSAT3 Flight Model and Engineering Model – Image credit Aalborg University

The Hindu newspaper reports that the first launch of the year by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be the PSLV-CA (PSLV-C20). It will carry the ocean study spacecraft SARAL as well as satellites carrying amateur radio payloads. The launch into a 785 km orbit is currently planned to take place on February 25.

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Apr 5 2012

New Frequencies for Polish Radio Amateurs

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/