 SSETI
Express Update
25th October
Its 22:30 here in Plesetsk at the moment and we are going out to the
Cosmodrome again at 02:30 tomorrow to see the whole launch vehicle 'roll
out' of the building on a train.
Then at around 10:30 tomorrow we will be driven to the launch site and
see the rocket being erected to the vertical position.
They start fuelling around 05:50 on Thursday and then the launch is about
five hours later.
I believe that S band may be given a very quick check (over Europe) soon
after launch so we should know by the end of the weekend about the health
of the transponder configuration.
Hopefully we may have the power budget to radiate a blank carrier on
a 24/7 basis until the 67Hz CTCSS tone on the uplink opens the squelch
- but this is the perfect scenario and we dont yet know if we will reach
that happy state of affairs!
Exciting times but the stress levels are building somewhat.....
cheers
Graham
UA/G3VZV
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