[SMCARA] Fw: ARLS008 SSETI Express launch delayed indefinitely

[Larry Norris]

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Subject: ARLS008 SSETI Express launch delayed indefinitely


> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS008
> ARLS008 SSETI Express launch delayed indefinitely
> 
> ZCZC AS08  
> QST de W1AW  
> Space Bulletin 008  ARLS008
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington, CT  September 29, 2005
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS008
> ARLS008 SSETI Express launch delayed indefinitely
> 
> The launch of the Student Space Exploration and Technology
> Initiative (SSETI) Express satellite, which will carry an Amateur
> Radio package, has been postponed indefinitely. That announcement
> from SSETI Express Project Manager Neil Melville put a damper on the
> enthusiasm building in anticipation of a planned September 30
> launch. Melville blamed the delay on the failure of another
> spacecraft set to go into space during the launch from Russia.
> 
> "Early indications suggest that we have a delay of at least one
> month, but this is not confirmed," he said. "This is, of course,
> very unfortunate, but it is not critical," he went on. "The
> spacecraft can easily wait for the new launch date without any
> significant problems, and we will fly it as soon as we can." When it
> does fly, the SSETI Express, which also carries three CubeSat
> picosatellites, will leave Earth from Plesetsk Cosmodrome via a
> Cosmos-3M LV vehicle.
> 
> The Cosmos-3M will deploy the Topsat, China DMC and the low-Earth
> orbit 60 kg SSETI Express satellites. Plans call for downlinking
> AX.25 telemetry at 9.6 kb on 437.250 MHz and at 38.4 kb on 2401.835
> MHz. The satellite will be turned into a single-channel amateur FM
> voice Mode U/S transponder after the transmitter serves initial
> telemetry duty.
> 
> SSETI Express will, in turn, release the three CubeSats--NCUBE-2,
> UWE-1, and XI-V. The XI-V ("sai five") package will include a CW
> beacon on 437.465 MHz and FM packet on 437.345 MHz.
> 
> The ESA SSETI Express initiative has brought together students from
> two dozen European universities via the Internet to build and launch
> a satellite. ESA provides managerial and technical coordination.
> 
> There's more information on the AMSAT-UK Web site at,
> http://www.uk.amsat.org/ and on the AMSAT-NA Web site at,
> http://www.amsat.org.
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> /EX
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