Dear Nitin,
Very many thanks for your kind words and thoughts on behalf of AMSAT-India.
We are very grateful.
We have tried quite hard to develop the project with a wish and intent to
make it as "open" as possible and to respect the great support that we have
had from many directions.
best 73
Graham
G3VZV
-----Original Message-----
From: Nitin Muttin
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:55 PM
To: AMSAT BB
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!
Graham, This is a significant accomplishment and the progress was very much
visible due to the frequent updates by the project team. On behalf of AMSAT
INDIA I thank AMSAT UK and the entire team of Funcube for their hardwork
and also wish a successful launch,deployment and activation of the Funcube
satellite.
73
Nitin [VU3TYG]
Secretary, AMSAT INDIA
________________________________
From: Graham Shirville <[email protected]>
To: AMSAT BB <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 17 November 2013 1:40 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] FUNcube-1 launch week has arrived!
Well it has finally arrived. Little did we think, back in 2009 that we
would not be launching FUNcube-1 until late 2013 but, at last, we are
almost there.
The past four years have been spent trying to find a suitable launch
opportunity, dealing with many legal and administrative issues, in addition
to finalising the technical requirements for the spacecraft. We also then
had to convert those requirements and ideas into reality.
The core FUNcube team comprises of just about a dozen of us – radio
amateurs from the UK and the Netherlands together with software specialists
from both countries. A few of us even have skills in both the analogue and
digital domains!
We have met on numerous occasions for “face to face” meetings over weekends
and held weekly Skype chats almost every Sunday evening. We have had highs
and lows along the way but the end result – FUNcube-1 our tiny spacecraft,
is now sitting in an ISIPOD on the launch vehicle ready to take its chances
in space on Thursday. Many hours of evaluation and verification testing of
both the Flight Model and also the earlier Engineering Model have been
undertaken, so we are as confident as we can be that we have done the best
job possible.
This mission could not have been carried forward without the efforts of the
team members but neither could it have been completed without the
tremendous support that it has received from individual radio amateurs and
others and other AMSAT groups around the world.
Thursday November 21st 2013 is our launch day and most of the team will be
assembled at the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park to man a
monitoring station for at least the first two days following the launch.The
first signals from FUNcube-1 should be heard in Southern Africa and then in
Hawaii and then Alaska. After that, we hope to hear signals in the UK on a
very low pass to the east around 08:50 UTC.
We are very grateful to the RSGB for their support in allowing the use the
NRC facilities which should be perfect for this operation.
http://www.nationalradiocentre.com/ Although it is not large enough to be
able issue an open invitation to everyone to join us on the day, we will be
trying to do our best to keep everyone in touch with what is happening.
We will be setting up a webstream from the NRC using the services of the
BATC.tv server http://www.batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=3 This should be
available from around 07:00 UTC on Thursday and will keep running for as
long as we have something to show. As well as shackcam views it will also
have a breaking news “tickertape” and some videos created during the
development of the spacecraft.
Additionally we will maintain a presence on the #cubesat IRC channel which
can be easily accessed by a web client from here:
http://webchat.freenode.net/
Of course our own www.funcube.org.uk website will also be kept up to date
as possible and updates will be provided here on AMSAT-BB.
So all we ask everyone to do now is to, download the FUNcube Dashboard,
read the guidance notes, register with the Data Warehouse and hang on for
an interesting Thursday. Oh and keep your fingers crossed.
Very many thanks for your support!
73
Team FUNcube
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