ARLA/CLUSTER: Satelite para SSTV a ser lançado no Sábado.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Ham radio SSTV satellite launches Saturday

The amateur radio Slow Scan TV satellite SPROUT (Space Research On
Unique Technology), built by students from Nihon University, launches
on May 24 at 0305 UT

SPROUT, a 20 x 20 x 22 cm amateur radio nano-satellite with a mass of
7.1 kg, will launch from the Tanegashima Space Center with ALOS-2 a
L-band (1236.5 MHz/1257.5 MHz/1278.5 MHz) Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) satellite into a 654 km orbit.

The amateur radio objectives of the mission are:

- FM Digitalker that will enable the satellite to speak to amateurs
around the world.

- Voice Message Box that will record transmissions from radio amateurs
and play them back.

- AX.25 1200 bps Packet radio Digipeater with Text Message Box function.

- Pre-loaded images from the Message Gallery can be transmitted using
FM Slow Scan TV (SSTV).

- Pictures of the Earth can be transmitted by SSTV and radio amateurs
can receive them using free software such as MMSSTV. As part of the
Earth mapping project the team ask radio amateurs to contribute
pictures they have received from the satellite for display on the
SPROUT website.

Callsign: JQ1ZJQ
Size: 214x210x220 mm
Weight: 7.1 kg
Mode: 1200bps AFSK, 9600bps GMSK
CW downlink 437.525 MHz
Packet FM downlink 437.525 MHz
Digi-peater uplink 437.600 MHz
Digi-talker downlink 437.600 MHz
SSTV FM  downlink 437.600 MHz

SPROUT English website
http://sat.aero.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/sprout-e/

Nihon-Univ. Miyazaki Laboratory on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/
Nihon-Univ-Miyazaki-Laboratory/406566642818860

Free Slow Scan TV software MMSSTV
http://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php

Further information on SPROUT is available on the AMSAT-UK website at
http://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/21/
sprout-amateur-radio-slow-scan-tv-satellite/