OSCAR Number Administrator, Bill Tynan, W3XO reports that he has advised J. M. Wersinger, PhD, KI4YAU, Professor Emeritus and Director of Auburn University’s Student Space Program, that following the successful NASA ELaNa III launch on October 28, 2011 of AubieSat-1, and by the request of the AubieSat-1 team, the new satellite has been assigned an OSCAR number.
Professor Wersinger documented that telemetry has been received from the satellite. The IARU-Sat Website states that AubieSat-1 was fully coordinated with the IARU.
Bill wrote, “Therefore, by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA President, I hereby designate AubieSat-1 as AubieSat Oscar 71 or AO-71 and welcome this newest OSCAR into the Amateur Radio satellite community.
On behalf of AMSAT-NA and the world’s amateur radio satellite community, I congratulate Professor Wersinger, Auburn University and all of those responsible for building, testing and launching this new CubeSat. May its mission meet with success.”
When a competion was run to find Apps to fly on the Smartphone CubeSat STRaND-1 one of the wining entries was an App which was a spin-off of the work done by the AMSAT-UK FUNcube team. See the story at:
A detailed article on STRaND-1 appeared in a recent edition of the newsletter OSCAR News published by AMSAT-UK. It can be downloaded from http://www.uk.amsat.org/on_193_final.pdf
The Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) initiative took place on Friday, October 28 at 0948 UT and a number of Amateur Radio satellites were among them. The CubeSats were successfully deployed at 1129 UT. Signals have been heard from Explorer-1[Prime], RAX-2, AubieSat-1 and M-Cubed.
Jean-Marie KI4YAU asks Amateur Radio operators to listen out for AubieSat-1, on 437.475 MHz CW. He says
We fervently request your assistance in receiving transmissions from an upcoming satellite, AubieSat-1, immediately after its launch from Vandenberg AFB, California, USA. AubieSat-1 (AS-1) is an undergraduate – built CubeSat satellite developed by Auburn University.
AS-1 is designed to transmit with a power of about 800 milliwatts on a frequency of 437.475 MHz, plus or minus Doppler correction [+/- 9 kHz]. The beacon signal, along with telemetry, will be sent using A1A continuous wave Morse code at 20 words per minute. Additional telemetry from the onboard science experiment will use CW transmissions up to 60 WPM.
On the AMSAT bulletin board Lynn KJ4ERJ reports the initial keps for the CubeSats launched today October 28 have been loaded into the APRS pass predictor:
For APRS users, to get a pass prediction for your QTH, make sure you’ve beaconed your position recently then send a message to one of the following “stations” and you should receive information on the next (or current) pass:
SAT99999 or DICEY
SAT99998 or DICEF
SAT99997 or RAX2
SAT99996 (Mixed case sat names are not yet supported)
SAT99995 or E1PU2
SAT99994 (Mixed case sat names are not yet supported)
Auburn University’s famous battle cry, “War Eagle”, will be heard from space Oct. 27 when it is transmitted to Earth from a student-built amateur radio satellite known as AubieSat-1.
After launch when the satellite comes over Auburn, Alabama, the team will send up a command and if all is well AubieSat-1 will reply with “War Eagle” in Morse code.
AubieSat-1 is designed to transmit with a power of about 800 milliwatts on a frequency of 437.475 MHz, plus or minus Doppler correction [+/- 9 kHz]. The beacon signal, along with telemetry, will be sent using A1A continuous wave Morse code at 20 words per minute. Additional telemetry from the onboard science experiment will use CW transmissions up to 60 WPM.
The AubieSat team from Auburn University have released a video about the project which features radio amateurs such as J-M Wersinger KI4YAU and Kyle Owen KK4ANG.
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