Rotation Period
10 Sep 2021 = 24.3 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
11 Sep 2021 = 26.3 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
12 Sep 2021 = 32.1 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
13 Sep 2021 = 39.3 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
14 Sep 2021 = 44.5 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
15 Sep 2021 = 50.9 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
16 Sep 2021 = 50.5 seconds (from averaged panel temperatures)
Special thanks to Terry VK5GU and Colin VK3HBF for their continued assistance with downloads this week.
AO-73 continues to maintain a complex attitude the result of normal spin rotation about the Z-Z axis with the Z-Z axis slowly rotating about AO-73’s unbalanced Moment of Inertia.
AO-73 will enter a short period of continuous solar illumination commencing 23rd September.
The AMSAT-UK Team has placed AO-73 in High Power Telemetry download mode for this short period of continuous sun.
73 de Colin VK5HI.