AATiS team announces RUBIN-5/SAFIR-S activation

There are 2 amateur radio equipped payloads that remain attached to the launch adapter that carried the SSETI mission into space. These are the Mozhayetz-5 (RS-25) and RUBIN-5/SAFIR-S payloads.

Unfortunately due to the failed release of RS-25, the power budget of a partially covered solar cell for RUBIN-5/SAFIR-S is low.

The SAFIR S-band beacon is now enabled with a carrier frequency of 2401.900 MHz. The downlink-only beacon consists of a 10-15 second FM speech message followed by several transmissions of 9k6 FSK AX.25 packets.

Currently the SAFIR-S beacon is activated with the following schedule: minutes 10-20, minutes 30-40 and minutes 50-60. SAFIR-S is de-powered during the remaining hourly intervals.

Details regarding the status and a technical description are available on the AATiS-Sat Homepage: http://amend.gmxhome.de. This site is in German language for the moment, but it is planned to add a description
in English. The satellite news on this site is bilingual.

Please e-mail reception reports DG6BCE@aatis.de

Oliver, DG6BCE