RAMSAT, MIR-SAT1 deployment from ISS


RAMSAT
Robertsville Middle School, USA
436.300MHz 9k6_FSK
Release: 14/06/2021

https://sites.google.com/view/ramsat/home
https://www.ortn.edu/robertsville/ramsat/
https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/kibouser/




MIR-SAT1
Mauritius Research Council (MRC), Mauritius
Up:145.9875/Down:436.925MHz 9k6_GMSK 3B8MIR

It now official that MIR-SAT1 the first 3B8 satellite (a HAM one) will be deployed
on the 22/06/2021 at 10:55UTC from the ISS (on the local National TV this evening
and announced by the Minister of ICT) by JAXA using the KIBO's robotic arm.

Further details may be obtained at https://spacemauritius.com/,
more information will be publish soon.

To note that experimental decoders (some fine tuning may still be required) are
already available:
1) https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php,
   thanks to Chris for his hard work to make it available to the HAM community
2) https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites/blob/mirsat/python/telemetry/mirsat1.py
   and thanks also to Daniel (EA4GPZ) his hard work and to have incorporate a decoder
   in GR-Satellites.

So great to have the support of above experts, I wish to put on records my appreciation
for the all their the advices they provided to the 3B8 team and their unconditional
support fully in the Ham spirit of brotherhood. “Grand merci Chris et Dani” without
you we HAM will not have a clue about what is the status of the bird.

These decoder will be used by local schools and Universities to capture the signals
from the bird and hopefully create inspiration for our 3B8 youngsters to space science
and STEM per AMSAT Ambassador program goals.


[MIR-SAT1 Scheduled for Deployment from the ISS]

Jean Marc Momple, 3B8DU reports it now official that MIR-SAT1, the first Mauritius
Amateur Radio 3B8 satellite, will be deployed from the ISS on June 22, 2021 at 10:55UTC.
The deployment will be made using the robotic arm on the Japanese Experiment Module
nicknamed Kibo.

MIR-SAT1 is a 1U CubeSat mission with the following objectives:

1. Verify the performance of the on-board subsystems by receiving telemetry from the
   satellite and establish communication to and from the satellite (command and control).
2. Collect images of Mauritius and the Mauritian EEZ for capacity, building, experiment
   and research.
3. Experimental communication with other islands via the satellite (for scientific
   and/or emergency purposes), through a Radio Amateur digipeater payload.
4. V/U 9600bps GMSK digipeater may be open for Radio Amateur communication worldwide
   when the satellite not used for all above.

Further details can be found at https://spacemauritius.com.

Experimental decoders are already available:

+ AMSAT Pacsat Ground Station Software by Chris Thompson, G0KLA/AC2CZ is a decoder
  for the PacSat protocol, designed for FalconSat-3 now with support for Mir-Sat1.
  More information and the download is available at:
  https://www.g0kla.com/pacsat/index.php.

+ GR-Satellites by Daniel Estévez, EA4GPZ is a collection of GNU Radio decoders.
  More information and the download is available at:
  https://github.com/daniestevez/gr-satellites/blob/master/python/telemetry/mirsat1.py.

These decoder will be used by local schools and Universities to capture the signals
from the bird and hopefully create inspiration for our 3B8 youngsters to space science
and STEM per AMSAT Ambassador program goals.

Jean Marc remarks, "It is so great to have the support of above experts.
I wish to put on record my appreciation for the all the advice they provided to
the 3B8 team and their fully unconditional support in the Ham spirit of brotherhood.
'Grand merci Chris et Dani.' Without you we ham's will not have a clue about
what is the status of the bird."

In addition, the Mauritius Amateur Radio Society (MARS) is creating special awards
open to all participating Hams/SWL's worldwide. These awards will be issued to
those decoding MIR-SAT1 telemetry and forwarding same to SatNOGS.

- A Platinum award will be issued to the first 10 ground station applying
  for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS.
- A Gold award will be issued to the next 20 ground station applying
  for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS.
- A Silver award will be issued to the next 30 ground station applying
  for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS.
- A Bronze award will be issued to the next 50 ground station applying
  for MIR-SAT1 Award after having forwarded the telemetry to SatNOGS.

Complete information on the awards program can be found at
https://mars3b8.wordpress.com/2021/06/19/mir-sat1-special-award/.


PacSatGround-0.42b on LINUX by JE9PEL

I succeeded in launching correctly "PacSatGround-0.42b.jar"
on LINUX as follows after starting Terminal application.
It's especially important to enter it as in the third line. 

$ cd mirsat1
$ cd PacSatGround_0.43a_linux
$ java -jar PacSatGround.jar




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