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Mass Amateur Radio Satellite Launch – 28th June13 Amateur Radio Satellites will be launched at 19:39:11 UTC on the 28th June 2006 on a DNEPR-1LV rocket from the Kazakstan Baikonur Cosmodrome in what will be the largest ever deployment of Amateur Radio Satellites. The satellites will be put into a 500 by 566 km orbit with an inclination of 97 degrees. Each satellite is a 10cm cube weighing just 1kg into which is packed the battery, transmitter and the various experiments. Twelve of the satellites have downlinks in the Amateur Radio Satellite Service allocation between 435 and 438 MHz and one will operate on 145.950 MHz so they’ll be lots of signals to listen out for after launch. Further information on the Dnepr Launch 1 can be seen at: http://littonlab.atl.calpoly.edu/
One of the CubeSats to be launched is known as SEEDS. Built by students at the Nihon-University it contains a CW beacon, Digi-Talker and other experiments. After launch it will operate a CW beacon on 437.485 MHz using the callsign JQ1YGU. The Digi-Talker experiment will be activated later. The builders say they look forward to receiving reports and data from the satellite from Amateur Radio operators and SWL’s all over the world. For further information on SEEDS see If you fancy building your own CubeSat check out http://www.cubesatkit.com/ • If you want to know more about the fascinating world of Amateur Radio Satellite communications, why not attend the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium which runs from the 28th to 30th July at the University of Surrey in Guildford, details at http://www.uk.amsat.org/Colloquium/
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