Aviram Jenik wrote:
I'm sorry, but you are misinformed. There was a SECOND sattelite (named TechSat 2), it DID go up, and it is functioning perfectly to-date. The Technion, however, did not repay the ham radio community for the bandwidth that was allocated to them and the volunteer-hours that were put into it (and don't tell me they were paid - I know some were - hardly all).> > Then the Technion launched their sattelite, they have used ham radio > frequencies to communicate with it. The agreement with them > was that the > sattelite will become a ham sattelite for data communication > (9600 baud) > after the Technion have their way with it. Never happened, though. >
Only the reason it never happened was the Satellite crashed during take off (or more accurately, the carrier missile crashed and the satellite never took off). So you can't blame them for it :-)
BTW, the problem with the Arian was that one of the phases in the rocket did not separate properly (I think it was the explosive bolts, but I'm not sure).
-- Arik
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