Super News. On behalf of AMSAT INDIA I would like to thank all those involved in the project for realizing the end goal.
73 Nitin [VU3TYG] Secretary, AMSAT INDIA ________________________________ From: PE0SAT | Amateur Radio <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2013 1:53 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 is in its POD Congratulations to the whole team, this is great news. > 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 73 Jan PE0SAT -- With regards PE0SAT Internet web-page http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/ _______________________________________________ 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
