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Reference URL: http://www.uk.amsat.org/4460






ESA CubeSats update
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/esa9cubf.htm


Vega Satellite Deployments

Eight CubeSats are planned to release on February 9, 2012 in the following order
(time schedule after launch). Pre-launch TLEs have not yet been made available.

T0+ 4245.30secs first  PPOD, XatCobeo, e-st@r, and Goliat
T0+ 4255.30secs second PPOD, Robusta, MaSat-1, and PW-Sat
T0+ 4265.30secs third  PPOD, UniCubeSat only
T0+ 4275.30secs AlmaSat-1


http://www.uk.amsat.org/4235
http://www.ies.univ-montp2.fr/robusta/satellite/IMG/pdf/EDU-TN-Cubesats-ICD-Iss-0-Rev-7_March_2011.pdf


Vega Satellite Launch Vehicle


http://www.uk.amsat.org/4309


VEGA launch window

Join us for the first qualification flight of the Vega launch vehicle
on Monday 13 February, with a launch window open from 11:00 to 12:30 CET
(10:00 to 11:30 GMT). Vega will lift off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou,
French Guiana, to release nine satellites into orbit and add a new capability
to Europe's fleet of launch systems. Live transmission starts at 10:40 CET.

The payload consists of two Italian satellites - ASIfs LARES laser relati_
vity satellite and the University of Bolognafs ALMASat-1 - as well as
seven picosatellites provided by European universities: e-St@r (Italy),
Goliat (Romania), MaSat-1 (Hungary), PW-Sat (Poland), Robusta (France),
UniCubeSat GG (Italy) and Xatcobeo (Spain).

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Vega/SEM8QAWX7YG_0.html
http://www.videocorner.tv/


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     Uplink     Downlink            Beacon     Mode
----------    -------    ----------------    -------    -------------------
ALMASat-1        .       437.465/2407.850    437.465    1200bps FSK
e-st@r           .       437.445             437.445    1200bps AFSK
Goliat           .       437.485             437.485    1200bps AFSK,CW
MaSat-1          .       437.345             437.345    625/1250bps GFSK,CW
PW-Sat1       435.020    145.900             145.902    1200bps BPSK,FM,CW
Robusta          .       437.325             437.325    1200bps FM
UNICubeSAT       .       437.305             437.305    9600bps FSK
Xatcobeo         .       437.365/145.940     437.365    1200bps FFSK,SSR,CW
----------    -------    ----------------    -------    -------------------

ALMASat-1     University of Bologna, Italy
              http://www.almasat.unibo.it/02_projects/almasat-1/almasat1.htm
e-st@r        Politecnico di Torino, Italy
              http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/E-STAR/
Goliat        University of Bucharest, Romania
              http://www.goliat.ro/
MaSat-1       Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
              http://cubesat.bme.hu/?lang=en
PW-Sat1       Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
              http://www.pw-sat.pl/pw-sat_radio_amateur
Robusta       University of Montpellier 2, France
              http://www.ies.univ-montp2.fr/robusta/satellite/?lang=en
UNICubeSAT    University of Rome, Italy
              http://www.gaussteam.com/
Xatcobeo      Universidade de Vigo, Spain
              http://www.xatcobeo.com/cms/


(C)DK3WN



Preliminary TLEs

XATCOBEO
1 00002U 12006B   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  31967-3 0    16
2 00002  69.4857 238.7662 0796847  45.0971 191.9357 14.06476807    13
ESTAR
1 00003U 12006C   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  28115-3 0    18
2 00003  69.4857 238.7662 0796159  45.0883 191.9444 14.06339990    10
GOLIAT
1 00004U 12006D   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  26912-3 0    12
2 00004  69.4857 238.7662 0795841  45.0842 191.9484 14.06276813    11
ROBUSTA
1 00005U 12006E   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  31201-3 0    10
2 00005  69.4856 238.7662 0796758  45.0912 191.9422 14.06456720    16
MASAT
1 00006U 12006F   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  28115-3 0    11
2 00006  69.4856 238.7662 0796254  45.0851 191.9481 14.06356736    11
PW-SAT
1 00007U 12006G   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  26588-3 0    14
2 00007  69.4856 238.7662 0796068  45.0829 191.9503 14.06319864    16
UNICUBESAT
1 00008U 12006H   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  31967-3 0    12
2 00008  69.4856 238.7662 0796936  45.0885 191.9454 14.06489697    10
ALMASat-1
1 00009U 12006I   12044.46627998  .00000000  00000-0  12728-3 0    17
2 00009  69.4857 238.7662 0792733  45.0462 191.9858 14.05660435    12


Vega launch success, 13 Feb 2012

 10:00UTC  Vega launched successfully
 11:12UTC  CubeSats deployed successfully
 11:53UTC  Signals report from Florida
 12:09UTC  Signals were decoded by DK3WN



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xhJYYLCY8E



(C)DK3WN


VEGA cubesat status report
Observed by DK3WN on 4th orbit over EU
 18:00UTC, 13 Feb 2012

ALMASat-1  received and decoded
e-St@r     not received
Goliath    not received
MaSat-1    received and decoded
PW-Sat     received and decoded
Robusta    not received
UniCubeSat not received
Xatcobeo   received and decoded


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