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Cute 1.7 Amateur Radio Satellite to be launched 20th February

Mineo Wakita / JE9PEL has supplied the information below on the Amateur Radio Satellite Cute-1.7 which is currently scheduled for launch on 20th February.

It will be launched as a sub-payload on the 3rd stage of Japanese solid rocket M-V-8. The main satellite is ASTRO-F http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/ASTRO-F/Outreach/index_e.html

Cute-1.7 makes use of the 23cm and 70cm Amateur Satellite allocations and it provides the amateur radio community with an AX-25 Packet Digipeater with store and forward capability.

For further information see http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html

73 Trevor M5AKA


CUTE-1.7 information
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:45:28 +0900

Launch prediction: 21:00 UTC, 20 Feb 2006
Launch rocket: JAXA/ISAS, M-V-8

Cute-1.7+APD Frequency Modulation Protocol
Downlink (Beacon) 437.385MHz CW Morse
Downlink (Packet) 437.505MHz AFSK 1200bps AX.25/SRLL
GMSK 9600bps
Uplink (Digipeater) 1268.500MHz GMSK 9600bps AX.25/SRLL

Orbit information
Orbit: Sun Syncronous Elliptic
Inclination: 98 deg.
Perigee: 290km
appogee: 751km
NORAD TLE (Two Line Element)

Cute-1.7 + APD

http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html
http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/howtoreceive_e.html

Mineo Wakita JE9PEL
JAMSAT member
Mail: ei7m-wkt@<no spam>asahi-net.or.jp
URL : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
QTH : Yokohama Japan, GL:PM95TJ
Date: Feb 12, 2006

 

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