Hi, If "we" is the hams arournd the world I think most of us we ready to rock and roll then some. Im not sure what did or didn't happen. I just hope they do somthing before July a re run of the test is a thought.
73 kc9pxz Jimmy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:11 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 battery. > > Hi Nitin / Vince. > > Although the non appearance of ARISSat-1 has been a little disappointing, > in the overall scheme of things we are still looking at a major AMSAT > achievement here. There is after all a satellite awaiting 'launch' on the > ISS. > We know it's a success because so many people have named it and want it to > be > identified as belonging to them. We even have some working telemetry > decoding software 3 months ahead of launch. - Yipee. > > I'm really not sure what all the confusion over the last few days tells > us. Prepared press releases full of mistakes, a complete lack of > preperation > following the long period of testing which left the battery delpleted. No > plan B to charge it during the sleep period - One wonders if the switches > were even returned to the correct positions when it was last turned off. > > Despite a turbulent last few days, the main event is yet to come and as > long as the designers have anticipated it being deployed with a completely > flat battery, then we can all sit back and wait for July more prepared > from > this rehearsal than we would have been. > > Regards > > David G0MRF > > > > > In a message dated 12/04/2011 21:13:19 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] > writes: > > At 10:49 PM 4/11/2011 +0530, [email protected] wrote: >>Nothing heard on the 16.20 UTC pass, watch the live feed from ISS from >>http://spaceflight.nasa.gov looks like the crew is working on addressing > the >>issue, the last comment I heard is recharging the batteries ( Please > excuse >>if I am wrong J ). >> >> >> >>73's >> >>Nitin [VU3TYG] > > > That's what I was thinking because someone should have heard it by > now. Maybe in two months pass the time since it should launched, even > though it was off there might have been a small drain on the batteries > and > now they're in a discharge state. > > KB7ADL > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
