Tag Archives: CubeSat

Jun 2 2014

ARTSAT1:INVADER Reception Reports Needed

ARTSAT INVADER Team Members

ARTSAT INVADER Team Members

Masahiro Sanada JI1IZR reports the amateur radio CubeSat ARTSAT1:INVADER (CO-77) is in trouble and asks radio hams to listen for the satellite and report any reception.

ARTSAT1:INVADER

ARTSAT1:INVADER

ARTSAT1:INVADER, one of the CubeSats, is in trouble that the satellite does not reply after the command by the command station.

The members are trying to find out how to recover.

We have no reply from the satellite, nor the CW [437.325 MHz] becomes not to be heard after the command.

When you have a chance to listen to the satellite, please send your report via the form at:
http://api.artsat.jp/report/

Your report will be great help for the members.

We appreciate your help very much.
Thank you.

Masahiro Sanada
de ji1izr
Hiratsuka-city
Kanagawa,Japan

INVADER is an amateur radio “Art Satellite” developed by students at the Tama Art University as a part of the “ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project” which aims at a practical use of a satellite for art and design.

The 1U CubeSat was launched from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center on Thursday, February 27 at 1837 UT. It carries a CW (A1A) beacon on 437.325 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift), a 1200 bps FM AX.25 Packet Radio and FM Digitalker on 437.200 MHz and a low-resolution camera.

ARTSAT http://artsat.jp/

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/artsat

Twitter http://twitter.com/INVADER_ARTSAT

ARTSAT1:INVADER designated OSCAR 77
https://amsat-uk.org/2014/04/03/artsat1invader-designated-oscar-77/

ARTSAT students at the Tama Art University

ARTSAT students at the Tama Art University

May 31 2014

LituanicaSAT-1 FM Transponder Active until June 4

LituanicaSAT-1 Camera and FM Voice Transponder

LituanicaSAT-1 Camera and FM Voice Transponder

The LituanicaSAT-1 team have announced the FM transponder should be active until June 4, 2014.

Dear radio amateurs,

Due to favorable orbit conditions LituanicaSAT-1 is now operating under 100% sunlight until about 4th of June. Thus we have decided to turn the transponder on during this period. The CW fm beacon and packet telemetry are also on right now. 

73,
Laurynas Maciulis
LY1LM, LY5N

LituanicaSAT-1 FrequenciesFrequency are approximately 435.1755 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift) for the downlink and 145.950 MHz for the uplink with 67 Hz CTCSS.

The tiny satellite is just 10x10x10 cm with a mass of 1.090 kg yet it has a VGA camera and a 145/435 MHz FM voice transponder, designed and built by Lithuanian radio amateurs.

The prototype of the FM repeater has been operating in the home of its designer Žilvinas Batisa LY3H in Elektrėnai, Lithuania. Further information at http://ly3h.epalete.com/?p=303

FM transponder operating techniques http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=44412

LituanicaSAT-1 CubeSat https://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/27/lituanicasat-1-cubesat/

Reports should be sent to: ly5n  at qrz.lt

LituanicaSAT-1 was built by students from Vilnius University.

May 31 2014

FUNcube Satellite Update Video

Howard Long, G6LVB and member of the FUNcube Satellite Team, describes the launch and use of the FUNcube-1 satellite, and timeframes for the next three FUNcube sats.

Watch FUNcube Satellite Update by Howard G6LVB, 2014 Dayton Hamvention

FUNcube Yahoo Group https://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/

FUNcube Forum http://forum.funcube.org.uk/

FUNcube website http://www.funcube.org.uk/

Join AMSAT-UK https://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/13/join-amsat-uk-7/

May 29 2014

KLETSkous Linear Transponder Demonstration

KLETSkous LogoThis video shows a demonstration, given on May 24, 2014, of the KLETSkous 1U Cubesat amateur radio transponder.

A 435/145 Linear transponder is planned with a bandwidth of 20 kHz.

Currently the team are considering frequencies in the 435.100 to 435.140 MHz range for the uplink and 145.860 to 145.980 MHz for the downlink.

The scientific payload will be an experiment analysing “Worm Holes”. This experiment will try and find the portholes between Sun and Earth.

Further information at http://zr6aic.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/KLETSkous
and at http://www.amsatsa.org.za/

Watch KLETSkous 1U CubeSat Satellite Transponder Demo

May 27 2014

Manchester: Synergy-Space Meetup

Sotira Trifourki Synergy-SpaceOrganizer Sotira Trifourki reports on the planned Synergy-Space Meetups in the Manchester area.

She says: We are putting together a regular meetup group to start making the CubeSats and Space Telescope’s for our forthcoming missions to the Moon with Team SYNERGY MOON, you can find us here:
http://www.meetup.com/Synergy-Space/

Synergy Moon http://www.synergymoon.com/

May 26 2014

TshepisoSAT / ZACUBE-1, six months on orbit

ZACUBE-1, FUNcube-1 and HiNCube in the deployment pod - Image credit Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG

ZACUBE-1, FUNcube-1 and HiNCube in the deployment pod – Image credit Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG

The South African CPUT TshepisoSAT team were invited to give a mission update at the SA AMSAT‘s Space Symposium on Saturday, May 24, 2014 at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria.

The event was well attended and even had representatives from SANSA in attendance. Presentations on other CubeSats included Denel Dynamics’ DynaCube, FUNcube-1 and SA AMSAT’s own KLETSkous project.

This paper gives a brief introduction to the F’SATI programme, the constructed CubeSat and mission. An outline of the milestones reached thus far with the Tshepiso nano-satellite are given, the outstanding activities that must still be completed and challenges faced. Some of the images captured by the satellite are also presented. Read TshepisoSAT, six months on orbit.
http://www.cput.ac.za/blogs/fsati/files/2014/05/Paper-SA-AMSAT-Space-Symposium-Pretoria-2014.pdf

CPUT F’SATI News http://www.cput.ac.za/blogs/fsati/blog/

Southern African Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA AMSAT) http://www.amsatsa.org.za/