[BCVHFA] Space Station Deploys Five CubeSats

[Carl Morgan]

 From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  October 5, 2012
To all radio amateurs

SB SPACE ARL ARLS005
ARLS005 Space Station Deploys Five CubeSats

Five research CubeSats - all with Amateur Radio communication systems 
- were successfully deployed from the International Space Station 
beginning around 1430 UTC today. The satellites were launched from 
the Kibo station module using a specially equipped robotic arm.

The group includes:

TechEdSat, a collaboration among NASA's Ames Research Center; San 
Jose State University; the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) and 
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will be sending AX.25 
packet telemetry at 437.465 MHz. The TechEdSat team is asking for 
assistance from amateurs in decoding and relaying data. Follow the 
mission on their Twitter page at, 
<http://twitter.com/TechEdSat>http://twitter.com/TechEdSat.

More information about decoding and submitting packet data is 
available on their website.

FITSAT-1, designed and built at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 
Japan, will test the feasibility of high-speed microwave data 
downlinks in low Earth orbit. It will transmit telemetry on 437.445 
MHz and 5.84 GHz. They welcome signal reports from amateurs at their 
website at, 
<http://turing.cs.fit.ac.jp/~fitsat/>http://turing.cs.fit.ac.jp/~fitsat/.

WE WISH, from the Meisei Electric Company Radio Club, Japan, will 
send CW telemetry and occasional SSTV images at 437.505 MHz.

RAIKO, designed and built by students at Wakayama University, Japan, 
will transmit high-speed data at 2.2 and 13 GHz.

F-1, built by students at FPT University in Hanoi, Vietnam will send 
telemetry at 145.980 and 437.485 MHz using 1200-baud packet and CW.

Amateurs are asked to monitor and submit reports. More information 
can be found at, 
<http://fspace.edu.vn/?page_id=27>http://fspace.edu.vn/?page_id=27.

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