AO-73 : Funcube-1

Rotation Period

30 Dec 2022 = 2.09 seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)
31 Dec 2022 = 2.09 seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)
01 Jan 2023 = 2.07seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)
02 Jan 2023 = 2.07 seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)
03 Jan 2023 = 2.05 seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)
04 Jan 2023 = 2.02 seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)
05 Jan 2023 = 2.03 seconds (from the Sun Sensor Data)

We are now at a spin rate where the mathematical result is now “very ball-park” as the Sun Senor data is becoming increasingly “ragged”.

AO-73 continues spinning about the Z-Z axis at a fast rate with the Z-Z axis very slowly precessing about AO-73’s centre of mass in a not so stable attitude.

Latest WOD retrieved from real-time telemetry

73 de Colin VK5HI.

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