Irish radio experimenter receives Ande De-orbit Award

Along with many other international participants, John EI7IG recently received his certificate for gathering telemetry from the ANDE satellite before it re-entered the atmosphere.

Recently Henk PA3GUO and Mike DK3WN sponsored an ANDE award to encourage reception of telemetry during the last few weeks of life of the Amateur Radio satellite ANDE.

ANDE was build by students from the US Naval Academy and deployed from the Space Shuttle (STS-116) on a return mission from the International Space Station (ISS) on 21 December 2006.

Due to it’s low orbit it had a short lifetime and re-entered the earth’s atmosphere just over a year later on the 25th of December 2007.

Source: IRTS