The following is the plan that many satellites are launched from Vandenberg
Air Force Base (VAFB) LC-3E on 07:14 UTC, 6 Dec 2013 by Atlas V 501 rocket.
Refer to this link for more information.





ALICE          US Air Force Institute of Technology
               460.xxxMHz, GFSK (non-amateur)

CUNYSAT-1      The City University of New York
               437.505MHz 9600bps GMSK,CW

FIREBIRD-U1/U2 Montana State University
               437.405/230MHz 9600bps GMSK

IPEX(CP8)      California Polytechnic State University
               437.270MHz 9600bps GMSK,CW

MCubed-2       University of Michigan
               437.485MHz 9600bps GMSK

The other satellites to be launched at the same time are related to "U.S.Army Space
and Missile Defense Dommand", so only this PDF is now opened to the public.


        
 ALICE                      CUNYSAT-1                  FIREBIRD                   IPEX                       MCubed-2


[Received]

IPEX(CP8), California Polytechnic State University
Initial NROL's TLE: 99991U 00000 ( -> JSpOC-704 90704U 13072D)
23:14-23:25 UTC, 6 Dec 2013, Ele 81 SE-Z-NW, 437.270MHz 9600bps GMSK,CW
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/31207ip2.mp3




07:16-07:30 UTC, 7 Jun 2014, Ele 37 ES-W-WN, 437.270MHz 9600bps GMSK




MCubed-2, University of Michigan
CalPoly's TLE: JSpOC-712 90712U 13072L ( -> JSpOC-710 90710U 13072J)
00:00-00:11 UTC, 14 Dec 2013, Ele 52 SE-E-NW, 437.479MHz 9600bps GMSK




FIREBIRD-U2, Montana State University
The communication speed of FIREBIRD is nominally 9600bps, but JA0CAW
has discovered that is 19200bps actually. And I, JE9PEL could decode
as shown in the figure below his received recording file using MixW.

JSpOC-712 90712U 13072L, 437.230MHz 19200bps GMSK
Received by JA0CAW, 15 Dec 2013
http://ja0caw-je0mzi.mo-blog.jp/syumi/files/bird1215-13.wav




[Supplement1] Catalog Number



IPEX        JSpOC-704  90704U  13072C  (2013-072K 39471)
MCubed-2    JSpOC-710  90710U  13072J  (2013-072H 39469)
FIREBIRD-U2 JSpOC-712  90712U  13072L  (2013-072C 39464)


[Supplement2] TLE update

IPEX        http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~ops/keps/kepler.txt
MCubed-2    http://gs.engin.umich.edu/predictions/mxl.txt
MCubed-2    http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~ops/gemsat_tle/39469-MCUBED-2.txt
FIREBIRD-U1 http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~ops/gemsat_tle/39463-FIREBIRD-A.txt
FIREBIRD-U2 http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~ops/gemsat_tle/39464-FIREBIRD-B.txt

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