----- Original Message ----- From: ps8rf Piraja To: Domenico ; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:17 PM Subject: FW: [amsat-bb] Cubesat NANOSATC-BR
Hi Domenico, <snip> When BRASAT (AMSAT - BR) we do not have much information. Some years back we walk probing information to activate it, but we had no information, only that the Junior Castro was the holder of the AMSAT-BR. If you observe, the only ham entity that is supporting the project NANOSATC-BR is the Amateur Radio Association Santamariense - ASRA, a small local association, but big in their efforts. 73' Pirajá, PS8RF Hi Piraja' ,PS8RF It means that as soon Junior De Castro, PY2BJO abandoned his BRAMSAT activity with a lot of his personal money and donations than AMSAT Brazil do not existed anymore. Same story on the recent events in AMSAT-France. Because of no HEO satellites in orbit AMSAT is loosing every day his power and many old members. Sorry to say that. 73" de i8CVS Domenico > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Cubesat NANOSATC-BR > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:44:57 +0200 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ps8rf Piraja" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 3:53 PM > Subject: [amsat-bb] Cubesat NANOSATC-BR > > Brazil is preparing to launch the NANOSATC-BR. The design of the BR-NANOSATC > is being developed by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and > students of Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) of state Rio Grande > do Sul here in Brazil. > > "The BR-NANOSATC will have two scientific instruments, a magnetometer and > also a particle detector of precipitation for monitoring real-time > geospatial, and the precipitation of particles in the magnetosphere > disturbances on the Brazilian territory to determine its effects on regions > such as the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (SAMA, the English acronym) and > the Brazilian sector of the equatorial electrojet. > > This anomaly [SAMA] is a "failure" of the Earth's magnetic field in this > region, which is about Brazil, "said Jose Manuel Octavio Coordinator of the > National Institute for Space Research of Brazil. As a consequence of this > anomaly, there is a greater risk of the presence of particles high-energy > region, which can affect communications, signals from global positioning > satellites (like GPS), or even cause failure of electronic equipment such as > onboard computers. The INPE has been studying this anomaly for decades, > including several researchers international reputation, which even took part > in defining the mission and its payload. " > > According to Otavio Durão, Technical Coordinator NanosatC-Br and INPE, the > situation referred to is its launch in November 2012. The uplink frequency > (UHF) and downlink (VHF) have been allocated by the IARU. The telemetry will > be at 145.865 MHz 9k6 BPSK. The project is receiving support from the > Amateur Radio Association Santamariense - ASRA and call sign of the control > station will be PY3EB. Durão told me it will be very interesting and welcome > the participation of the Amateur Radio satellite tracking. > > We are waiting for soon the website with all the information the CubeSat > NANOSTC-BR. > > The project is in full swing. > > IARU Informations: > > http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=209 > > 73' > > Pirajá, PS8RF > > > Hi Piraja', PS8RF > > Daily I see news about new CubeSat's.. but like the one you mentioned > (build by commercial company), most of them have nothing to do with > Ham Radio anymore. > > Ham Radio is only the vehicle to use our frequencies, that's all.. they are > not interested in ham radio... > > I think it will not take long and we may loose our satellite frequencies > to the CubeSat community of institutes, industry, etc... > > On the other hand, if the worldwide ham radio community does not support > P3-E, how can AMSAT-DL ever finish it and get it launched ? > > I'm still optimistic regarding an affordable launch for P3-E in the future > but it may happen that we have a launch but AMSAT does not exist anymore > due to the lack of money to keep the world wide organization running.. > > The old HEO satellite users of OSCAR-10, OSCAR-13 and AO40 are > becoming old and they are very tired to wait for a real new satellite > capable to supply a worl wide communications better than on HF as > promised to us by AMSAT many years ago and this is why the numbar of > AMSAT member is reducing and the strenght of AMSAT is rapidly > diminishing or do not exist anymore like actually occurs to AMSAT-France. > > You writes only "Brazil is preparing to launch the NANOSATC-BR" so that > my question is " does AMSAT-Brazil (BRAMSAT) exist anymore ? " > > 73" de > > i8CVS Domenico > > > _______________________________________________ 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
