ARLA/CLUSTER: Federação búlgara de radioamadores prepara-se para lançar um Cubesat em 2018

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Bulgarian amateur radio Cubesat to launch 2018

The Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs (BFRA) are collaborating with
the Space Challenges program and EnduroSat  for the first Bulgarian Amateur
Radio CubeSat mission named *EnduroSat One*

The project will include launching of 1U CubeSat from ISS (International
Space Station) with goals to foster Amateur Radio’s participation in space
research and communication in Bulgaria, to teach the participants in Space
Challenges Program and hundreds of students from diverse Bulgarian
universities (Sofia University, Technical University - Sofia, Tech
university - Plovdiv and others) in practical satellite communication and
to promote amateur radio hobby to young people henceforth to enrich the
Radio Amateur community in Bulgaria.

The satellite will have two beacons:
• CW (A1A) beacon which will transmit its own call sign and some TLM data
using Morse code
• telemetry beacon using AX.25 in datagram-mode

Radio amateurs all around the globe will be able to listen to the satellite
beacons, to receive and decode telemetry data from the satellite on a
regular basis. Every radio amateur will be able to connect to the satellite
and receive more detailed telemetry information and get a confirmation from
the satellite for every established contact which will serve as QSL card.

A webpage is currently being designed as part of Space Challenges web
portal where all the information and instructions required to connect with
the satellite will be published as well as online database where all users
will be able to upload the data they receive directly from the satellite.

A competition will be held, a log file with all the successful
communications will be published and the call sign with the most uploaded
telemetry data will be announced by the satellite through its beacon. BFRA
will guide the students to experience their first space mission by
connecting with the CubeSat once in orbit. They will learn satellite
communication by practicing. During the mission, Space Challenges team will
record educational video materials and will publish them online in English
and Bulgarian, demonstrating satellite communication techniques and
increasing the popularity of the Radio amateur society in the region. This
will be made possible by Spaceport online educational platform.

Spaceport is an online platform for space education and the developed
materials during EnduroSat One mission will guarantee maximum project
exposure to young people. Since, this is the first ever Bulgarian radio
amateur CubeSat mission, it will undoubtedly create good practices in
correct registration and launch preparation processes for future
educational and radio-amateur CubeSat programs on local (Bulgarian) level.

Those good practices will be shared also on the educational platform of
Space Challenges and provided to interested students and radio-amateurs,
with permission from the given organizations (including IARU).

EnduroSat One will be embarked on the cargo resupply mission SpaceX CRS-14
to the International Space Station manifested to be launched on February
2018 from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 launch base in Florida, USA. Proposing a
UHF 9k6 GFSK AX25 downlink.

More info on the Space Challenges web portal
https://www.spaceedu.net/

Spaceport https://spaceport.academy/

Source IARU Satelite Frequency Coordination Panel
http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/
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