ARLA/CLUSTER: Estudantes da Universidade de Southampton vão lançar dois radio-balões durante o Eclipse Solar

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Southampton students to launch eclipse payload

The University of Southampton Spaceflight Society will be launching
for the solar eclipse on Friday, March 20, with two 434 MHz Slow Scan
Digital Video (SSDV) balloon payloads

The transmitters are as follows (telemetry all 8n2 600 shift):

'FUSS' - 434.2125 MHz - (SSDV + no GPS)
'SSUF' - 434.150 MHz - (SSDV + GPS)

Thanks in advance to all those who will try to listen

Matt Brejza

The signals transmitted by High Altitude Balloons can have a range of
between 300 and 800 km. The path of the balloons can be tracked in
real-time at http://spacenear.us/tracker/

Useful links for tracking, receiving and decoding the telemetry from
434 MHz balloons can be found at
http://amsat-uk.org/beginners/balloons/