Regarding Canada's Space Program, did you know that Canada's oldie satellite
Allouette-2 is back to live???, or at least its transmitters.....
While I was monitoring the 136-138 satellite sub-band a couple of months ago
with a RTL2832U based cheap SDR dongle I founded weird doppler shifted
signals not matching any known transmitting satellite. After reporting it on
the HearSat mailing list and posterior confirmation from Mike Kenny in
Australia the best match was Canadian old satellite Allouete-2 launched in
1965.
It is amazing how solar panels, antennas and transmitters stages are
functioning after 48 years!!! It can be heard on:
136.076 +- 2 KHz with high instability, strong.
136.589 with unmodulated sub-carriers, weak.
136.981 Continuos Wave.
All three transmitters are alive after many years. It seems that due to some
unknown reason it started to transmit again. May be the very same UFO which
un-plug the batteries from the AO-07 bus ran across that oldie historical
satellite and push the "ON" button HI HI HI HI HI!!!
All the bests and 73,
Raydel, CM2ESP
----- Original Message -----
From: "B J" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Amsat BB" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:12 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas
On 9/28/13, Bryce Salmi <[email protected]> wrote:
I was watching the Canadian Space Agencies BROLL video of the CASSIOPE
satellite due to launch in a few days and noticed a neat antenna. The
video
link below starts at the appropriate point in the video (feel free to
watch
the whole video too). For what looks like it is essentially steel tape
measure metal... that's quite an intense antenna and deployment! I'm used
to seeing these on cubesats and other small satellites but this is very
neat to see too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WGD4cWnpcto#t=245
It looks like it's the descendant of what was used on Canada's first
satellite, Alouette-1:
http://www.spacenet.on.ca/data/pages/canada-in-space/alouette.html
http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/alouette.asp
Many years ago, there was a documentary about the early days of
Canada's satellite program and I remember this was mentioned.
Unfortunately, I don't remember what the name was.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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