Cute-1.7 + APD II Launch Information

Hiroki Ashida of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (JQ1YCZ) has posted some information on the Cute-1.7 + APD II Cubesat to be launched early on Monday.

As you may know well, our CubeSat Cute-1.7 + APD II will be launched on April 28th by the PSLV-C9 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, India.

Launch date and time:
April 28th at 03:53 UTC.

Expected TLE of Cute-1.7:
Cute-1.7 + APD II

1 XXXXXU 08XXXXXU 08119.16240069 .00000087 00000-0 12004-4 0 0000X

2 XXXXX 97.9407 179.2082 0011339 291.8724 214.7140 14.7829476700001X

Our satellite uses the amateur radio band. The specifications are as follows:

* Uplink
+ Command (Closed): 144MHz Band
+ Service (Open): 1267.6MHz¡¡GMSK 9600bps, AX.25/SRLL

* Downlink
+ Beacon: 437.275MHz¡¡CW, Morse, Power 100mW
+ Telemetry: 437.475MHz¡¡AFSK 1200bps¡¿GMSK 9600bps,  AX.25/SRLL, Power 300mW

We would appreciate if you receive the signal from "Cute-1.7 + APD II". If you received telemetries from our satellite, please kindly inform us.
http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/howtoreceive_e.html

The details can be seen at Cute-1.7 + APD II Project Web Site http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html

or Cute-1.7 + APD II Project Weblog
http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/blog/

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
cute1.7_question@lss.mes.titech.ac.jp

CW Telemetry Checker Ver 0.5 Beta
http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html

Screen shot
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/80426cut.jpg

Best regards,

Hiroki Ashida