ARLA/CLUSTER: Novos CubeSats foram lançados ontem às 15H04 UTC.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

LightSail-1 and PSK31 CubeSats launched

At 1504 UT on Wednesday, May 20 the first of The Planetary Society’s two
*LightSail* spacecraft blasted off into space aboard an Atlas V rocket with
the X-37B space shuttle. Deployment of LightSail took place at 1705 UT

The mission is a shakedown cruise designed to test out the LightSail’s
critical systems.

There were ten CubeSats including LightSail-1 in the UltraSat Deployer
onboard the Atlas V, among them were CubeSats carrying amateur radio PSK31
transponders for multi-user PSK31 text messaging as well as APRS.

LightSail-1 has a 9600 bps FSK AX.25 Packet Radio downlink on 437.435 MHz.
The Planetary Society’s Jason Davis asks radio amateurs to help by emailing
him any data they collect from LightSail, including screenshots of the
radio signal if you have them. He'll pass the information on to the
engineering team, and your contribution will be recognized on the blog. The
contact address is at http://www.planetary.org/about/staff/jason-davis.html

In 2016, the second LightSail spacecraft will piggyback into orbit aboard
the first operational flight of SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket for a
full-fledged solar sailing demonstration.

Further information on the CubeSats launched can be seen at
http://www.spaceflight101.com/afspc-05-secondary-payloads.html

PSK31 and APRS CubeSats
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/us-naval-academy-cubesat-launch-to-include-next-aprs-satellite

AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/
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