Congrats!
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:54 AM, n0jy <[email protected]> wrote: > Great work gentlemen, I'm looking forward to your launch! > > 73, > Jerry > N0JY > > > On 9/4/2013 11:52 AM, Graham Shirville wrote: > >> The AMSAT FUNcube team are delighted to be able to announce that the >> FUNcube-1 CubeSat has now completed all its final testing and been placed >> into its launch POD. >> >> This work was completed during a three day programme at the premises of >> ISIS BV in Delft in the Netherlands and was finished, on time, late this >> afternoon. >> >> FUNcube-1 is actually the middle 1U CubeSat of three sharing a 3U ISIPOD. >> It is sharing the ISIPOD with ZACUBE-1 from South Africa and HINcube from >> Norway. ZACube-1, in addition to carrying VHF and UHF communications >> equipment also has a 20 metre beacon which will operate on 14.099MHz This >> ISIPOD, with the spacecraft inside, will be transported to Russia, early >> next month,for launch and will eventually be attached directly to the >> launch vehicle. >> >> FUNcube-1 carries a U/V linear transponder and the educational telemetry >> beacon using 1k2 BPSK for school outreach purposes. >> >> The current launch info has lift off scheduled for November 21st at >> 07:11:29 UTC >> >> Full intial orbit details and TLE’s, together with decoding sofwtare will >> be made available over the next few weeks >> >> best 73 >> >> Graham G3VZV – Wouter PA3WEG – Jim G3WGM >> ______________________________**_________________ >> 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<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<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
