Four new Amateur Radio satellites

Four Amateur Radio satellites were successfully deployed from the Space Shuttle Endevour (STS-127) on Thursday July 30. They are ANDE Castor, ANDE Pollux, BEVO1 and AggieSat

The initial Kepler elements for the ANDE Castor and ANDE Pollux satellites were posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) at
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/amsat-bb/48hour/
msg72870.html

Henk, PA3GUO, reports hearing telemetry from AggieSat and has made recordings available:

1433 UTC pass (manual tuning):
http://www.pa3guo.com/aggiesat_30jul2009
_1433utc_436.250cw.mp3

1600 UTC pass (manual tuning):
http://www.pa3guo.com/aggiesat_30jul2009
_1600utc_436.255cw.mp3

Burst of 5 seconds, within a period of 20 second.

He estimates that the center frequency of AggieSat is around 436.255 MHz
First signals heard 436.262, last signals 436.248.

Henk also reports hearing ANDE Castor and capturing some telemetry  from ANDE Pollux.

After decoding the telemetry Ivan Galysh, one of the development team, posted:

"Current surface temperature is ranging from 6 to 9C. Interior temperature is ranging from -3 to -1C. It looks like all high school MEMS experiment payloads are functioning.
Some of the data doesn't look right but that is part of the experiment. When I get a chance, I'll send out the MEMS telemetry format and info on the MEMS devices."

At the time of writing (July 30 1900 UT) no signals from BEVO1 had been reported.

ANDE Castor - 145.825 MHz FM transmits telemetry every 30 seconds https://goby.nrl.navy.mil/ANDE/Castor.html

ANDE Pollux - 145.825 MHz FM transmits telemetry every 33 seconds https://goby.nrl.navy.mil/ANDE/Pollux.html

BEVO1 (DragonSat 1) - 437.325 MHz FM, Morse Code at about 20 WPM
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/06/09/picosatellite/

AggieSat2 (DragonSat 2) - 436.250 MHz
http://aggiesat.org/

You can follow AggieSat2 on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/aggiesat2

ANDE FX.25 Protocol Experiment
https://goby.nrl.navy.mil/ANDE/Amateur_Radio.html

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