[amsat-bb] ANDE warming, Telemetry and Re-entry

[Robert Bruninga]

Yes, looks like ANDE will be a re-entry Xmas present. 

I will be in Alabama with aged parents and so will not be at my
ground station.  I hope others will capture that last data.  I
just updated the ANDE-OPS web page with the latest I have.  Plus
a plot of temperature and battery voltage.
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-ops.html

Warming temps at this point are due to increasing beta angle
probably and not detectible frictional heating yet.

Bob, WB4APR

> -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Henk, PA3GUO
> Subject: [amsat-bb] ANDE now @220km
> 
> ...I plot the current height of ANDE in the graph:
>
http://home.vianetworks.nl/users/hamoen/pa3guo/ande_predict_pa3g
uo_12dec2007.jpg

> One might conclude from this that from 220km 
> to de-orbit the graph shows ~12 days, so de-orbit 
> today + ~12 days = ~24 Dec.
> 
> There is a good bunch of activity these days;
> many stations Igate the packets,
> many stations make contacts via ANDE in these final days.
> 
> And: have a look at http://www.ande-deorbit.com for details 
> on the AWARD
> 
> Henk, PA3GUO
> http://www.qsl.net/pa3guo