[HoustonHam] FW: ARLS001 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for Nanosatellite's Beacon Signal

[Chris Boone]

All I know is what I posted.....sorry

Chris
WB5ITT

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> From: houstonham-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:houstonham-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of McClure, Rob K
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:35 PM
> To: Amateur (Ham) Radio in Houston. TX and surrounding areas
> Subject: Re: [HoustonHam] FW: ARLS001 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio
> Operators' Aid to Listen for Nanosatellite's Beacon Signal
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Is this something we'll have to check a satellite website to see when
> it's going to be over us?
> 
> 73, Rob, KC5RET
> 
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> Subject: [HoustonHam] FW: ARLS001 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators'
> Aid toListen for Nanosatellite's Beacon Signal
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARRL Web site [mailto:memberlist at www.arrl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:09 PM
> To: cboone at earthlink.net
> Subject: ARLS001 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for
> Nanosatellite's Beacon Signal
> 
> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS001
> ARLS001 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for
> Nanosatellite's Beacon Signal
> 
> ZCZC AS01
> QST de W1AW
> Space Bulletin 001  ARLS001
> >From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington, CT  January 20, 2011
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS001
> ARLS001 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for
> Nanosatellite's Beacon Signal
> 
> On Wednesday, January 19 at 1630 UTC, engineers at Marshall Space
> Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama confirmed that the NanoSail-D
> nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology
> Satellite (FASTSAT). According to NASA, the ejection event occurred
> spontaneously and when engineers at Marshall identified and analyzed
> onboard FASTSAT telemetry; the ejection of NanoSail-D also has been
> confirmed by ground-based satellite tracking assets.
> 
> NASA is asking radio amateurs to listen on 437.270 MHz for the
> signal and verify NanoSail-D is operating. Hams should send
> information to the NanoSail-D dashboard via the web at,
> http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm .
> 
> NASA said that the NanoSail-D science team is hopeful the
> nanosatellite is healthy and can complete its solar sail mission.
> "This is great news for our team," said Dean Alhorn, NanoSail-D
> principal investigator and aerospace engineer at the Marshall
> Center. "We're anxious to hear the beacon which tells us that
> NanoSail-D is healthy and operating as planned. The science team is
> hopeful to see that NanoSail-D is operational and will be able to
> unfurl its solar sail." As of Thursday, January 20, the NanoSail-D
> dashboard is reporting that beacon data has been received, but NASA
> still wants amateurs to track and report the signals.
> 
> On December 6, 2010, NASA triggered the planned ejection of
> NanoSail-D from FASTSAT. At that time, the team confirmed that the
> door successfully opened and data indicated a successful ejection.
> Upon further analysis, however, the team found no evidence of
> NanoSail-D in low-Earth orbit (LEO), leading them to believe
> NanoSail-D remained inside FASTSAT. The FASTSAT mission has
> continued to operate as planned with the five other scientific
> experiments operating nominally.
> 
> "We knew that the door opened and it was possible that NanoSail-D
> could eject on its own," said FASTSAT Project Manager Mark
> Boudreaux. What a pleasant surprise we had Wednesday morning when
> our flight operations team confirmed that NanoSail-D is now a free
> flyer."
> 
> If the deployment is successful, NASA said that NanoSail-D will stay
> in LEO between 70 and 120 days, depending on atmospheric conditions.
> NanoSail-D is designed to demonstrate deployment of a compact solar
> sail boom system that could lead to further development of this
> alternative solar sail propulsion technology and FASTSAT's ability
> to eject a nanosatellite from a micro-satellite -- while avoiding
> re-contact with the FASTSAT satellite bus.
> NNNN
> /EX
> 
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