PSAT telemetry – digi ON

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* please use the APRS digipeater only in sunlight *

20171121075323,PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAS,JA0CAW:T#453,822,074,475,860,804,00011100
20171121140251,PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAS,DL5MAM:T#817,827,070,518,818,813,00011100
20171121140530,PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAR,OH7LZB-15:s#006258,0z001
20171121153513,PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#908,839,072,729,764,807,00011100
20171121153518,PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:s#006320,0z001
20171121153520,PSAT-1>APOFF,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:Hi!
20171121153535,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#909,844,086,736,750,399,00011000
20171121153636,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#910,842,084,746,749,399,00011000
20171121153726,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:S#006322,0z200,o0HohHlkHDlJIlLLfLLHKKLIaNIkOHnMHpfH
20171121153756,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1::BLN0USA :PSK31 435.35 Up on 28.12
20171121153838,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#912,837,084,775,748,398,00011000
20171121153939,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#913,833,086,790,740,398,00011000
20171121154014,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1::BLN0USA :PSK31 435.35 Up on 28.12
20171121154039,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,OH7LZB-15:T#914,835,071,804,729,398,00011000
20171121154051,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,OH7LZB-15:s#006325,0z200,NNEIPEmPFqNErBEqkDnnD0oDLmDOjDOKDJPE
20171121154133,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,OH7LZB-15::BLN1USA :PCSAT.APRS.ORG
20171121154140,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,OH7LZB-15:T#915,837,071,814,721,397,00011000
20171121154241,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#916,833,071,823,713,397,00011000
20171121154309,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1::BLN0USA :PSK31 435.35 Up on 28.12
20171121154342,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#917,838,071,832,703,397,00011000
20171121154401,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:s#006327,0z200,P0DOLIKPGnPBpJBmmBLnBOhEONKHQCnOBogB
20171121154443,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1:T#918,835,068,841,688,396,00011000
20171121154447,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,DK3WN-1::BLN2USA :See APRS.FI & 144.39 users
20171121162116,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,VK7HSE-2:T#954,786,072,967,868,405,00011000
20171121162228,PSAT>APRSON,ARISS,qAR,ZL4JL-6:T#955,802,070,963,835,406,00011000

UWE-3 News: Celebrating 4 years of operation in space

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On 21st of November 2017 UWE-3 celebrated 4 years in space and is still running without any significant failures. The daily received UWE-3 beacons report its good health condition, including the nominal status of the batteries.


UWE-3 in cleanroom shortly before launch 2013.

During these last four years we received an outstanding support from the Radio Amateur Community from all over the world, which is highly appreciated. We would like to express our special thanks to: DK3WN, Rainer, PE0SAT, SP7THR, EU1XX, JA1GDE, JA6PL, G7GQW, ON4HF, LU4EOU, DL8MCO, JA5BLZ, CU2JX, R4UAB, VK5HI, JA0CAW, IW0HLG, JO1PTD, YC3BVG, DB1VQ, JA6DHC, ZL4JL, VK2FAK, JE9PEL, JH4XSY, JF1EUY, N2ACQ, PY4ZBZ, CX8AF, DG4YDF, LU7DRR, PD0OXW, PA2EON, IK8OZV, ES5EC, K4KDR, ZR1ADC, JE1CVL, EA7ADI, EA1JM, PY2SDR, VE7CEW, PA3GUO, ES5TO, SM0TGU, EA4SG, DL1MX, W6YRA.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR EXTRAORDINARY SUPPORT!

Yours sincerely,
UWE-3 Team.

Categories: UWE

Happy Birthday FUNCube-1

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Today, November 21st 2017, marks the fourth birthday for FUNcube-1 in orbit.

FUNcube-1 was launched at 07:10 UTC on November 21st 2013 and its first signals were received immediately after deployment over the Indian Ocean by amateurs in South Africa. Since then it has been operating continuously in either its education mode or, with the transponder active, in amateur mode when in eclipse and at weekends.
The spacecraft has spent the four years in space orbiting the earth at between 640 and 580 km and has now travelled around the earth more than 20,000 times. That represents a distance travelled of approaching 500 million miles.
Up to now, each of the orbits has been spilt approximately 65% in sunlight and 35% in eclipse. This has resulted in the temperatures inside the small spacecraft varying by about 25°C during each orbit.

During the recent AMSAT Colloquium, Wouter, PA3WEG, during his presentation about the FUNcube project mentioned that the power available from the solar panels has been slowly increasing since launch. This observation led the team to do some further investigations as to the cause.
Although the launch was into a nominally Sun Synchronous orbit, over time this has drifted and the spacecraft is now entering a period when it will be in the sun for longer periods during each orbit.
The exact details are still being determined, but it seems likely that, starting from January 2018, there will be periods when the spacecraft will be in the sun for all, or almost all, of its orbits. Of course, this means that the on-board temperatures will be much higher than we have previously experienced in flight, although we have some test records from pre-flight thermal air testing that were undertaken after integration.
The key will be to discover what the equilibrium temperature will be internally. For comparison, AO85 has already “enjoyed” periods of full sun and its internal temperatures have reached up to around 55°C.

So the next few months will be quite an exciting time for the team! We remain extremely grateful to everyone is using the spacecraft for both its educational and amateur missions. Of course we are also very very grateful to those who are downloading the telemetry and uploading the data to the Data Warehouse. It continues to provide a unique record of “life on board” a 1U CubeSat in space.

Graham, G3VZV

EcAMSat telemetry and QSL card

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03:26:21 UTC EcAMSat.org 06DD22000004011E3902A2020100CE006F0610E1357D42E462
03:26:26 UTC EcAMSat.org 06DD22000004011E3902A2020200CE006F061C0639B3462050
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03:26:56 UTC EcAMSat.org 42DD220300A300010000A7010800CE006F0629843D05471F66
03:27:01 UTC EcAMSat.org 42DD220000A300010000A7010800CE006F06350038384C5356
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03:27:11 UTC EcAMSat.org 42DD220000E5000F5A00A301C400CE006F0612DD3BC24AD94B
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03:27:21 UTC EcAMSat.org 42DD220000FB001F38029E020300CE0061060CBD3A5943DA55
03:27:26 UTC EcAMSat.org 42DD220000FA001F38029E020100CE006106185335D94B7360
03:27:31 UTC EcAMSat.org 42DD220000F9001F38029E020200CE006106249C380940B84F
03:27:51 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD22010099000100000B000800CE00690619D336EF43674A
03:27:56 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220700980001000006000800CE00690625C231C24A1E4B
03:28:01 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220000980001000005000800CE006906314036C145015D
03:28:06 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220000DD000F0000A201C400CE006906022F3B0547B349
03:28:11 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220100DC000F5A00A201C400CE0069060ECC3CC642CE56
03:28:16 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220000DA000F5A00A201C400CE0069061AE933C03EEA4E
03:28:26 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220000D8000F5A00A301C400CE00690632C82E7A675356
03:28:31 UTC EcAMSat.org 7EDD220000D60001A70135020000CE00690603C03E01488563
03:28:46 UTC EcAMSat.org BADD220000D40001A70135020000CE00690627DE392050CE56
03:28:51 UTC EcAMSat.org BADD220000D40001A70135020000CE00690633BD3A0547465F
03:28:56 UTC EcAMSat.org CCDD220000D4000F5A00A201C400CF006F061EDE39C642B25E
03:29:11 UTC EcAMSat.org CCDD220000CF0001350035020000CF006F0607A443BC4DAD13

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TLEs for the recent NanoRacks deployments from the ISS (20 Nov)

ECAMSAT        20 Nov 2017 08:05:00 UTC
ASTERIA        20 Nov 2017 12:25:01 UTC
DEILLINGER     20 Nov 2017 17:02:02 UTC

TECHEDSAT-6    21 Nov 2017 08:25:00 UTC
OSIRIS-3U      21 Nov 2017 11:40:00 UTC