CubeSats satellite operations update

On 13 February, the new Vega rocket delivered seven ESA-sponsored CubeSats into low Earth orbit. Since then, ESA’s Education Office has maintained frequent contacts with the student teams to follow the progress of their satellite operations.

For each team, this is the first hands-on experience of operating an orbiting satellite, and some of them have had to deal with some challenging difficulties
Read more @ esa new


A photograph of Earth taken by Masat-1 showing Western Australia (12 Mhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifarch, 2012).
Credits: Masat-1


Members of XaTcobeo at the ground station.
Credits: XaTcobeo team.

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Nice launch! Vega

CONGRATULATION EAS Nice launch!
UOK GROUND STATION MONITORING THE LAUNCH AND TRACKING THE NEW SATELLITES

ESA Frequency Change

Downlink,CW frequency of MaSat-1 and UNICubeSAT were changed.
They are MaSat1: 437.345MHz, UNICubeSAT: 437.305MHz as follows.
The initial TLEs will be opened to public after launch Vega Rocket.

Satellite-----Up-link----Down-link-----Beacon--------Mode

Xatcobeo--------x--------437.365------145.940-----1200bps-FFSK,SSR
e-st@r------------x-------437.445------437.445-----1200bps AFSK
Goliat------------x--------437.485------437.485-----1200bps AFSK
Robusta---------x--------437.325------437.325------1200bps FM
MaSat-1---------x--------437.345------437.345------625/1250bps GFSK,CW
PW-Sat1----435.020----145.900------145.900------1200bps BPSK,FM
UNICubeSAT----x------437.305------437.305------9600bps FSK
ALMASat-1-------x------437.465------2407.850-----1200bps FSK
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http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/esa9cubf.htm
JE9PEL, Mineo Wakita

ESA’s CubeSats ready for flight

The first students' CubeSats to be sponsored by ESA’s Education Office have passed their Final Acceptance Review and have been declared ready for launch on board the maiden flight of Vega, the new ESA launcher. The launch window for this historic lift-off opens on 26 January and ends in the first week of February 2012.

The seven university-built picosatellites, each weighing only 1 kilogram, were integrated with the devices that will carry them during launch – the P-PODs, or Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployers – between late October and mid November. Before they could be cleared for launch, they had to pass a detailed technical examination known as the Final Acceptance Review.

READ MORE @ EAS- Education website


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CubeSats

Up to nine CubeSats built by European Universities will be flown during the debut of Europe's new Vega launch vehicle at the beginning of 2012. Together they represent a diverse range of designs and a variety of miniaturised technologies and sensors.

Up to nine CubeSats will be accommodated in three P-POD deployment systems which are to be mounted on the LARES primary payload. Each 1 kg CubeSat will be deployed into a high inclination, low Earth orbit, and is expected to operate in orbit for up to four years using a small ground station based at its respective university.
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9 CubeSats for the launch on 16 Jan 2012.

ESA - European Space Agency is standing by 9 CubeSats for the launch on 16 Jan 2012.


PW-Sat1 Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Robusta University of Montpellier 2, France
SwissCube-2 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
XaTcobeo a collaboration of the University of Vigo and INTA, Spain
UNICubeSAT University of Rome, Italy
AtmoCube University of Trieste, Italy
e-st@r Politecnico di Torino, Italy
OUFTI-1 University of Liege, Belgium
Goliat University of Bucharest, Romania

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PW-Sat1

Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mode:
1. Receive only mode - no downlink
2. Beacon CW mode - Downlink On-Off Keying (OOK) CW (1kHz) 12 WPM on 435.020 MHz
3. Beacon BPSK mode - Downlink BPSK (3 kHz) 1200 bps AX25 (1 frame on 20 sec) on 435.020 MHz
4. Control communication mode. Downlink BPSK (3 kHz) 1200 bps AX25 on 435.020 MHz
5. Voice Repeater mode (aka "AO-16" mode) - Uplink 145.900MHz FM (15 kHz)
Downlink 435.020MHz DSB (3 kHz)
http://eng.pw.edu.pl/
http://tinyurl.com/CubeSatPW-Sat
http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/10/21/pw-sat-to-launch-in-january/

PW-Sat1




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Robusta

Universite Montpellier 2, France
http://tinyurl.com/montpellier2
http://www.ies.univ-montp2.fr/robusta/satellite/?lang=en

Robusta Frequency
437.325MHz 1200bd FM telemetry with one data burst of 20 secs every 3 mins

PDF files
http://www.ies.univ-montp2.fr/robusta/satellite/IMG/pdf/EN_EA_2010.02.02-2.pdf
http://www.ies.univ-montp2.fr/robusta/satellite/IMG/pdf/EN_GN_2010.11._interface-anglaisV9.pdf
http://www.ies.univ-montp2.fr/robusta/satellite/IMG/pdf/Progress_Report_1_08.11.pdf

Robusta




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SwissCube-2

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Frequency: 437.505MHz CW
http://swisscube.epfl.ch/

SwissCube-2




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XaTcobeo

Universidade de Vigo, Spain
FFSK with AX.25 on UHF, Simplex 437.365MHz
SSR downlink 145.940MHz
http://www.xatcobeo.com/cms/

XaTcobeo



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UNICubeSAT

University of Rome, Italy
437.345MHz 19k2 FSK
http://www.gaussteam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=183
http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/DevelopersWorkshop2009/2_Science/3_Santonio-UNICubeSat.pdf

UNICubeSAT




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AtmoCube

University of Trieste, Italy
437.225MHz 9k6 FSK
http://wwwusers.ts.infn.it/~gregorio/AtmoCube/AtmoCube_proposal.pdf
http://www2.units.it/atmocube/theses/assetto_Ciani.pdf

AtmoCube




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e-st@r

Politecnico di Torino, Italy
437.445MHz 1k2 AFSK
http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/E-STAR/Documents/Cubesats_development_at_Politecnico_di_Torino.pdf
http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/E-STAR/Documents/ESTAR_iWAT.pdf

e-st@r




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OUFTI-1

University of Liege, Belgium
OUFTI-1 = D-STAR Repeater in space
Uplink 145MHz / downlink 435.015 and 435.045MHz
DV mode only (GMSK / 4800bps)
Dual adaptive on-board Doppler compensation
Up to 10 minutes of continuous D-STAR communication time
Slots for custom compensation to be requested on our website
http://www.bxe.uba.be/oufti.pdf
http://www.ltas-s3l.ulg.ac.be/cmsms/uploads/08-09_Beukelaers.pdf

OUFTI-1




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Goliat

University of Bucharest, Romania
437.485MHz 1k2 AFSK
http://www.unibuc.ro/en/
http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/SummerWorkshop2008/Sun/1%20University%20of%20Bucharest.pdf

Goliat




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