[Scan-DC] Possible shuttle landing tomorrow -- 259.7 MHz AM?

[Andrew Clegg]

Thanks Gary and Charles.

Interesting note from the ARRL about what the shuttle will be doing before de-orbiting...

The space shuttle Endeavour is due to land Friday, July 31, but
before it leaves orbit it will deploy four student-built satellites,
all with telemetry downlinks in the 2 meter, or 70 cm, amateur
bands.
 
The twin spherical satellites -- named Castor and Pollux -- were
designed by students in cooperation with the Naval Research
Laboratory as part of the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment
(ANDE). Both satellites will transmit 1200-baud packet radio
telemetry on 145.825 MHz. Hams are encouraged to submit telemetry
reports with special QSLs and mission patches planned. Check the
ANDE Web site,
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/STP-H2-ANDE.ht
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for updates.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles Lawson 
  To: Andrew Clegg 
  Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Possible shuttle landing tomorrow -- 259.7 MHz AM?


  Andrew Clegg <w4jecom at w4je.com> writes:
  The shuttle may land at Kennedy tomorrow at 10:48 am or 12:22 pm EDT. Tray 
  tables up at 9:42 am or 11:17 am, respectively. I guess there could be some 
  activity on 259.7 MHz AM as they approach, but given the path in, it may be 
  a difficult catch for us here (someone who has more experience with this 
  please chime in).

  There are no additional decent passes over our horizon prior to scheduled touchdown.  However, if they are waved off from the Cape tomorrow, we might have some more chances.

  --
  Charles Lawson <clawson at capaccess.org>
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