ARLA/CLUSTER: ESA pede aos radioamadores que procurem os sinais em +-437,200 MHz do 3U CubeSat OPS-SAT a ser lançado amanhã

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Calling radio amateurs: help find OPS-SAT!

ESA is challenging anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the
first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA’s brand new space software laboratory

On December 17, the 3U CubeSat OPS-SAT will be launched into low-Earth
orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Kourou, in South America, together with
ESA’s Cheops exoplanet-tracker.

Lift-off is scheduled for 08:54:20 GMT on December 17. Deployment will
begin 15044.6 seconds later (T+15044.6 seconds), expected to be at
13:05:04 GMT.

OPS-SAT will begin transmitting 9600 bps GMSK on 437.200 MHz 15
minutes after satellite deployment and after ultra-high frequency
(UHF) antenna and solar array deployment have been confirmed. The
first two passes over Europe are expected on the same evening.

The OPS-SAT flight control team has developed open source software
which allows anyone to receive the 437.200 MHz beacon of OPS-SAT and
decode it.

Full details in the ESA article at
http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Calling_radio_amateurs
_help_find_OPS-SAT

OPS-SAT UHF Specification
https://github.com/esa/gr-opssat/blob/master/docs/os-uhf-specs.pdf

OPS-SAT GitHub https://github.com/esa/gr-opssat/