ARLA/CLUSTER: 8 CubeSat vão ser lançados a 9 de Fevereiro de 2012

[João Gonçalves Costa]

Vega satellite deployments

Vega is presently scheduled to launch at 0900 UT on Thursday, Feb 9, with eight student-built amateur radio satellites.

The launcher will first deploy the main payload, the LARES Laser relativity Spacecraft and will then make an additional firing of the final OVUM stage before deploying the secondary payloads.

The planned timing for these deployments are as follows:
T0+ 4245.30secs first PPOD, with (in order of ejection) XatCobeo, e-st  r, and Goliat

T0+ 4255.30secs second PPOD, with (in order of ejection) Robusta, MaSat-1 and PW-Sat

T0+ 4265.30secs third PPOD, with UniCubeSat only
These Cubesats will not deploy their antennas until >1800 seconds after they leave their PODS

T0+ 4275.30secs AlmaSat-1 - it is not known how soon this spacecraft will start transmitting after deployment

Pre-launch TLEs have not yet been made available but all the teams will certainly appreciate reception reports on the day. All observers are being encouraged to join the CubeSat IRC chat channel to pass on their news and comments in realtime. Using the irc.freenode.net server please join the #cubesat channel. It is recommended that you change you nickname to "name_callsign".

For frequencies of the eight student amateur radio satellites to be deployed by Vega see
http://www.uk.amsat.org/4180


Vega Elliptical Orbit Video
http://www.uk.amsat.org/4119


CubeSat IRC chat channel
http://irc.lc/freenode/cubesat



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