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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nilsen on July 26, 2006, 02:52:33 AM
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Today 12 mini student sattelites are beeing launched from russia. One of our universities have buildt one too and its supposed to transmit at 437,305 MHz if all goes well. Dont know its orbit and if you can "hear it" from the US but if anyone got one..
They sent one last year too but somthing didnt work and a few of the sats failed to call home.
These are tiny (1kg) sats made by students.. sounds like a fun project :)
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Technician class license here, callsign KE4TMG.
Thats a pretty cool project.
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KM4WDF
Ft Bragg Mars Station.
We had directional antennas, Collins Radios...
We did Phone Patch traffis from Germany to the States until Russia caused interference in the later part of the Day, Then we did Phone Patch from Panama...loved it.
Mac
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Technician class license here, callsign KE4TMG.
Thats a pretty cool project.
Yeah.. students from all over the world have small sats on this project. The one "our" students made is supposed to go along our coastline and monitor shipping and raindeers with radio transmitters. I guess they are using science to find santa :D
here is a pic of the littel bugger
(http://www.romsenter.no/bbfiler/gallery/Satellitter/NCUBE/00000404.jpg)
http://www.romsenter.no/cgi-bin/bildebank/bildebank.cgi?direct=Satellitter/NCUBE
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and monitor shipping and raindeers with radio transmitters
Nows thats cool. Not only are you launching a sattelite, but you're helping with conservational biology too.
AWmac, I can't find that callsign in any database. Is that the callsign that multiple people use when doing a MARS relay?
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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Nows thats cool. Not only are you launching a sattelite, but you're helping with conservational biology too.
AWmac, I can't find that callsign in any database. Is that the callsign that multiple people use when doing a MARS relay?
The plan is that some day animals that we know little about and those that may be endangered will be fitted with a tiny radio so their movements and habbits can be tracked. The also want to tag all the polar bears on svalbard so they know were they are and can be warned when one wanders too close to the settlement and research stations up there. As it is now the "sherriff" up there has to spend alot of time and money chasing them away from the settlements with helicopters and whatnot. If the cany be cut off before getting too close its simpler and cheaper.
Oh.. and they want to drop small beacons on icebergs that are of a damgerous size so they can be tracked too. Very simple anb cheap technology with many uses.
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Once upon a time I was a 32H..... that was align repair and operate any thing the Army had over 1000 watts. My favorite rig was a ANTC 26, 7 KW at the antenna jack, with a 250 db gain on a log periodic parasol ant. It was CW code only, and I never got jammed. I could talk 100 miles on the leakage off of the dummy load.
Gunns
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WA6LSO
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AK62 in the distant past
Retired 27mhz pirate
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Advanced class
KG9JZ
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K7SJS here
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KA4ZZQ
I don't even know what the class is anymore..
It was General before they started mucking around with everything.
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Well.. the russian R-36M rocket failed and crashed. All the little buggers were lost.. :(
There are some very disapointed students around the world.
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/pages/missions/dnepr-launch-1/dnepr-1-launch-updates.php
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That's a tough break
It might have been better if they used the space shuttle to deliver the sattelites. I shouldn't think it would be a big deal for one of the crew to kick them out of the door when he had a spare minute.
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Originally posted by Excel1
That's a tough break
It might have been better if they used the space shuttle to deliver the sattelites. I shouldn't think it would be a big deal for one of the crew to kick them out of the door when he had a spare minute.
They are rather small, but you have to get them in the correct orbit and im guessing that the shuttle was not. The rockets that the russians use are converted SS-18. Good to see that they are beeing put to better use than to hurl nukes around, but reliability (on this project) is 50%. Dunno how successful they have been on putting other sats in orbit.
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A total of 13 sats were lost... many of them from America. it was the second stage that did not ignite and it crashed.
They are going to build 4 more nCube sats over the next five years so they are not giving up! :) They will continue to use the same rockets because they are by far the cheapest ride. 10-15 % of all launches world-wide are failiures and suprisingly the russian launches have prooven to be the most reliable. I guess "simple" is sometimes best. I thought the Ariane rockets were the safetst...
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Your probably right about the shuttle not having the right orbit Nilsen, I didn't think about that. I guess that getting the shuttle to alter it's mission to launch sattalites would have been too exspensive for such a project.
It's great that they are not throwing in the towel though. Good luck to them for next time.