[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 Update

2011-08-04 Thread Gould Smith
ARISSat-1/Kedr continues to work well with good reports coming in from around the world. Good SSTV images submitted to the SSTV database, even earth and cosmonaut images, check out http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/ The transponder is working! Drew, KO4MA was successful in easily working

[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 update

2011-04-21 Thread G0MRF
This is an update on the ARISSat activities. We had a telecon with the ARISSat team in Russia. Here is the situation as described by them. The Russian suit battery that was intended to be used on ARISSat was used during testing both on the ground and onboard ISS when it first arrived. When

[amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 update

2011-04-11 Thread Gould Smith
As Armando, N8IGJ noted in his earlier email, NASA as published an update of today's activities ( it can be found at :http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/reports/iss_reports/index.html) .Contained this document is a section about ARISSat Dmitri performed hardware setup and test activation of