SumbandilaSat The South African small satellite ZA-002 or Sumbandila is a low-earth- observation (LEO) satellite that can take high-resolution pictures of any area in South Africa and which enables South Africa to collaborate with other countries. The programme, which will receive government funding of 26m, will be carried out in conjunction with the University of Stellenbosch and Sun Space & Information Systems (Pty Ltd.) Sumbandila will carry an GSD imager with a ground resolution of 6.25m. Live downlinking of PAL video images during TT&C ground station passes will also be possible. Additional experiments are VLF measurements, an amateur radio payload, an AIS experimental payload and a vibrating string experiment. Sumbandila was planned to be launched together with Kompass 2N on a submarine-launched Shtil-2.1 rocket, but after unresolved quarrels over a russian tracking sation on South African territory, russia refused to launch the satellite. A Piggyback launch on a Soyuz-2-1b Fregat has been selected as an alternative. Nation: South Africa Type / Application: Experimental Operator: University of Stellenbosch, SunSpace Contractors: SunSpace Equipment: see above Configuration: ? Propulsion: ? Lifetime: 3 years Mass: 60 kg Orbit: 500 km Satellite Date LS Launcher Sumbandila (ZA-002) 17Sep2009 TB Soyuz-2-1b Fregat Remarks: with Meteor-M 1, Sterkh 2, Universitetsky 2(Tatyana 2), IRIS, UGATUSAT, BLITS http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/sumbandila.htm Launch: 17 Sep 2009 Vehicle: Soyuz-2-1b Fregat V/U transponder: 2m Up / 70cm down (145.880/435.350MHz) Voice beacon: length 15 seconds (435.300MHz) Parrot repeater: every 20 seconds http://www.amsatsa.org.za/Anton%20Cotezzee%20Sumbandila%20Sat%20Message.mp3 http://www.amsatsa.org.za/SZASAT.htm SO-67 (SumbandilaSat) Uplink: 145.875MHz Downlink: 435.345MHz CTCSS tone for the transponder: 233.6 Hz http://www.amsatsa.org.za/ Universitetsky 2 (Tatyana 2, RS 38) Moscow State University (MSU) Frequency: 435.264MHz, CW http://smdc.sinp.msu.ru/index.py http://smdc.sinp.msu.ru/index.py?nav=tat2 http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/universitetsky-2.htm Oceansat-2, BeeSat, UWE-2, ITU-pSat1, SwissCube-1 Launch: 23 Sep 2009 Vehicle: PSLV C14 Site : ISRO Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota India Main Payload: Oceansat-2 Satellite Country Downlink Mode CallSign ----------- ----------- -------- ----------------- -------- Oceansat-2 India ? ? BeeSat Germany 436.000 GMSK 9600/4800bps DP0BEE UWE-2 Germany 437.385 CW, 1200bps AFSK ITU-pSat1 Turkey 437.325 CW, 19200bps GFSK SwissCube-1 Switzerland 437.505 CW, 1200bps AFSK HB9EG ----------- ----------- ------- ----------------- -------- Oceansat-2 Nation: India Type / Application: Earth Observing Operator: ISRO, Indian Space Research Organization Contractors: ISRO Equipment: OCM, SCAT, ROSA Configuration: IRS-1 Bus Mass: 952 kg Downlink: ? http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/oceansat-2.htm BeeSat Nation: Germany Type / Application: Technology Operator: Technical University of Berlin Contractors: TU Berlin Equipment: ? Configuration: CubeSat Mass: 1 kg Downlink: 436.000MHz, 9600/4800bps GMSK http://www.beesat.de/ http://server02.fb12.tu-berlin.de/rft/beesat/BeeSat/Welcome_to_BeeSat.html UWE-2 Nation: Germany Type / Application: Technology Operator: Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg Contractors: Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg Equipment: ? Configuration: CubeSat Mass: 1 kg Downlink: 437.385MHz, 1200bps AX.25/CW http://www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ http://epubl.ltu.se/1653-0187/2008/032/LTU-PB-EX-08032-SE.pdf ITU-pSat1 Nation: Turkey Type / Application: Technology Operator: Istanbul Technical University - Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics Equipment: ? Configuration: CubeSat Mass: 820 g Downlink: 437.325MHz, 19200bps GFSK/CW http://usl.itu.edu.tr/ http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/SummerWorkshop2007/Aydin_Tayfun.pdf SwissCube-1 Nation: Switzerland Type / Application: Technology Operator: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Contractors: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Equipment: ? Configuration: CubeSat Mass: 1 kg Downlink: 437.505MHz, 1200bps AFSK/CW http://swisscube-live.ch/ http://swisscube.epfl.ch/ New CubeSats launched 23 Sep.2009, 06:21UTC (15:21JST) Satellite Country Downlink Mode CallSign ----------- ----------- -------- ----------------- -------- SwissCube-1 Switzerland 437.505 CW, 1200bps AFSK HB9EG ITU-pSat1 Turkey 437.325 CW, 19200bps GFSK BeeSat Germany 436.000 GMSK 9600/4800bps DP0BEE UWE-2 Germany 437.385 CW, 1200bps AFSK ----------- ----------- ------- ----------------- -------- SWISSCUBE 1 99996U 09999S 09266.27831065 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00017 2 99996 098.2862 000.8438 0005852 035.1139 179.1923 14.51386990000002 ITUpSAT1 1 99997U 09999R 09266.27761620 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00017 2 99997 098.2891 000.8462 0003965 047.3461 163.3305 14.50931852000009 BEESAT 1 99998U 09999Q 09266.27807917 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00018 2 99998 098.3002 000.8533 0002378 350.5091 222.5822 14.50491512000005 UWE-2 1 99999U 09999P 09266.27738472 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00018 2 99999 098.2960 000.8503 0002212 328.3707 241.0884 14.50336350000001 http://blog.isilaunch.com/ UWE-2 heard I recorded some burst signals like UWE-2 at 12:26UTC, 23 Sep 2009. I edited some burst signals every 1 minute to a mp3 file of 14 seconds. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/90923uwe.mp3 ITU-pSat1 heard I recorded some signals from ITU-pSat1 at 14:01UTC, 23 Sep 2009. She is transmitting repeatedly like 'TA1KS ITUPSATHR'. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/90923itu.mp3 SwissCube CW SwissCube CW are transmitting by the abridged format for the number like CW of old LO-19. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/lo19cwte.htm LO-19 (= SwissCube) 0 - T 1 .- A 2 ..- U 3 ...- V 4 ....- 4 5 . E 6 -.... 6 7 -... B 8 -.. D 9 -. N E LUSAT HI HI 40 AUN ABB AV6 ADT AUN AED AET AE6 5 LUSAT HI HI 40 129 177 136 180 129 158 150 156 SwissCube HB9EG/1 HB9EG/1 a t v 1 0 3 u vue vu6 2 325 326 v ttttat 4t 3 000010 40 Power states COM: On Beacon: On Battery 1 voltage: 4.12 V Battery 2 voltage: 4.18 V Produced current -X: [0;125[ mA +X: [0;125[ mA -Y: [0;125[ mA +Y: [0;125[ mA -Z: [125;250[ mA +Z: [0;125[ mA Battery 1 temperature: 0 C SwissCube Beacon Decoder http://swisscube-live.ch/Home/RadioAmateurs SwissCube Fabrication Plan PDF Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: BEESAT From: Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:30:39 +0200 BeeSat has two CMX909B modems (CML) onboard. The data formats is MOBITEX, not AX.25 ! The CMX909B is a half-duplex Gaussian Minimum Shift Keyed (GMSK) BT = 0.3 modem data pump with on-chip packet data handling. GMSK modulation optimizes the data throughput for a given bandwidth RF channel and the on-chip packet data handling relieves the host uC of regular processing tasks, such as maintaining Bit and Frame Synch, Block Formatting, CRC and FEC Error Processing, Data Interleaving and Scrambling. BEESat is only active on request of the ground station in Berlin. There is no CW beacon. SwissCube BFSK decoded http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/swiscube.htm