[HIham] RAX-2 launch tonight at 11:48 pm, telemetry available over Hawaii at 3:02 am Oct 28

[Ron Hashiro]

    RAX-2 to be launched on Oct 27, 2011, telemetry available over
    Hawaii at 3:02 am HST Oct 28 <http://rax.engin.umich.edu/>

October 27, 2011, Updated October 27, 2011

The RAX-2 Cubesat to be launched at 11:48 pm HST on October 27, 2011 
near Vandenberg AFB near Los Angeles. It is one of six Cubsat payloads 
aboard a Delta II rocket. See http://www.cubesat.org/ for more details.

Students from the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering 
will be collecting telemetry from the UHF AX.25 packet beacon onboard 
the University of Michigan Cubesat RAX-2. The beacon will transmit on 
437.345 MHz 9600 baud GMSK. See http://rax.engin.umich.edu/?page_id=311 
for more details.

The telemetry will first be heard over Hawaii at 3:02 am HST on October 
28. The University of Michigan team would like to receive reports. See 
http://rax.engin.umich.edu/?page_id=304

With the recent uptick in solar activity and auroras, this Cubesat will 
generate a lot of great scientific data that will be useful for radio 
engineering and GPS operations

Ron H, AH6RH