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<H1>June 2009 launch for first Chinese Amateur Radio satellite </H1>
<P><STRONG>Michael <FONT face=Verdana>Chen BD5RV</FONT></STRONG><FONT 
face=Verdana> reports that the first Chinese Amateur Radio satellite has been 
renamed from CAS-1 to <STRONG>XW-1</STRONG> and is planned to launch next 
June.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Michael writes:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>I just came back from a hamvention and met Alan, BA1DU 
there. The 1st Chinese amateur satellite is now going smoothly. This satellite 
was formerly named CAS-1 and is now XW-1. It takes a beacon and three cross band 
transponders: FM, linear, and digital. <BR><BR>The satellite is planned to be 
launched in June 2009 by a CZ-2C rocket in Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in 
North China.<BR><BR><EM><STRONG>Michael, BD5RV/4</STRONG></EM></FONT></P><FONT 
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>It is understood that the satellite&nbsp;will carry a CW 
Telemetry Beacon, Linear Transponder, FM repeater and a Digital Store-forward 
Transponder with uplinks in the 2 metre Amateur band and downlinks on 70 cms 
with 500 mW output. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The satellite is expected to have a mass of 30 kgs and be 
launched into a sun syncronous orbit with a 670km apogee. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The Chinese amateur communications satellite design 
program CAS-1 (2005) (noow called XW-1)<BR></FONT><A 
href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=zh-CN&amp;u=http://ham-gps.it168.com/viewthread.php%253Ftid%253D328920%2526extra%253Dpage%25253D4&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=3&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=/search%253Fq%253DCAMSAT%252B%25252B%252BAMSAT%2526hl%253Den%2526sa%253DG" 
target=_blank><FONT face=Verdana>Google Chinese Translation</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Original at <BR></FONT><A 
href="http://ham-gps.it168.com/viewthread.php?tid=328920&amp;extra=page%3D4" 
target=_blank><FONT 
face=Verdana>http://ham-gps.it168.com/viewthread.php?<BR>tid=328920&amp;extra=page%3D4</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Page 
<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/" target=_blank><FONT 
face=Verdana>http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/</FONT></A><FONT 
face=Verdana>&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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