ARLA/CLUSTER: FUNcube-1 já chegou à Russia para ser enviado para o espaço

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

FUNcube-1 has arrived in Russia

The amateur radio FUNcube-1 CubeSat has arrived in Russia on its
journey to the Dombarovsky launch site near Yasny

It was flown on a special flight from Rotterdam on Wednesday, October
16 and was cleared through Russian customs on the morning of Thursday,
October 17. Another flight took it to Orsk from where it had a road
trip of several hours before arriving at the launch integration
facility at Yasny.

The only work that still needs to be completed before launch is a
final battery charge up to 7.68 volts, this is the best storage
voltage for this type of battery, and the final ABF “Add Before
Flight” plug needs to be installed and glued in place.

This work will be done on site by Gerard Aalbers who has been a member
of the FUNcube team from the beginning of the project.

FUNcube-1 communication subsystem:
• 300 mW Inverting linear transponder for SSB and CW
- Uplink      435.150 – 435.130 MHz
- Downlink  145.950 – 145.970 MHz
• 300 mW BPSK Telemetry  145.935 MHz (30 mW output when transponder active)

The Yasny Dnepr launch should carry at least 11 spacecraft using the
amateur satellite service and one of them, UniSat-5, will, itself,
later deploy up to nine CubeSats and PocketQubes so there should be
plenty of new signals to listen for after this launch.

UniSat-5 to Deploy Amateur Radio Satellites
http://amsat-uk.org/2012/05/25/italian-microsat-to-deploy-amateur-radio-satellites/

Battery Charger for FUNcube-1
http://amsat-uk.org/2013/08/18/funcube-1-cubesat-charger/

FUNcube Yahoo Group
http://amsat-uk.org/funcube/yahoo-group/