ARISSat-1 SK

The amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1 deployed from the ISS on August 3 fell silent on Wednesday, January 4, as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.

The ARISSat website shows the last telemetry was captured at 06:02:14 UTC on January 4 with these temperatures:
IHU PCB 75°C
PSU 76°C
RF 88°C
Batt 55°C
RF Enc 67°C

The full telemetry data can be seen at http://www.arissat1.org/

Mike Repprecht DK3WN reports that Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW captured telemetry at 05:59 UTC. Mike says it's remarkable that the last heard voice message was from Yuri Gagarin. See the last data on Mike's SatBlog http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=25125

Konstantin RN3ZF listened for the satellite at 08:42 UTC and reported:
FCD + WRplus I observed satellite ARISSat-1 on a falls. The telemetry was absent, voice messages were not legible, very silent and interrupted.
Most likely, I saw last minutes lives of the satellite, ARISSat-1 is dead. The subsequent monitoring of frequency speaks that the satellite any more does not radiate.

Here last my radiomonitoring in format WRPlus:

FTP http://doris.kiev.ua/rn3zf/kedr/

http://doris.kiev.ua/rn3zf/kedr/WRplus_20120104_
084230Z_145940kHz.wav

http://doris.kiev.ua/rn3zf/kedr/WRplus_20120104_
085129Z_145940kHz.wav
Files of the big size. :)

Education has been a large part of the ARISSat project and on the AMSAT bulletin board Simon G0FCU says he was glad he was able toreceive good signals and SSTV pictures last week for his daughter to take to school as part of her project on Space.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

A graph showing the descent of ARISSat-1 can be seen at
http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/arissat.htm#r

SSTV pictures taken by ARISSat-1 can be seen at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/

AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-
new/tools/maillist/

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