[amsat-bb] Re: AAUSAT-II and CANX-2

[Sion Chow Q. C. (9W2QC)]

Thank you, Daniel for the information regarding CANX-2.

Since CANX-2 is not turned on except over Toronto, Canada, I will pay more
attention to the other satellites instead.  Good luck with the new satellite
and congratulations on the successful launch.

73,
Sion Chow Q. C.,
9W2QC.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Daniel Kekez
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 1:56 PM
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AAUSAT-II and CANX-2
> 
> Sion Chow Q. C. (9W2QC) wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully copied CW telemetry from AAUSAT-II on 437.425
> MHz
> > and CANX-2 on 437.478 MHz?
> 
> We have not turned on our UHF transmitter on CanX-2. If it were to be
> used, it
> would only be active over our ground station in Toronto, Canada
> (FN03gs).
> 
> CanX-2 and CanX-6 are responding commands and both spacecraft are
> healthy. We
> are in the process of commissioning and it is progressing well on both
> spacecraft.
> 
> We are tracking CanX-2 with NORAD ID 32787 and CanX-6 with 32784. We
> are fairly
> confident in these targets because both satellites have SRS S-Band
> downlinks and
> we have good resolution with our 2.1m dish. I believe Celestrak has
> assigned
> those names to these objects, although it's really the NORAD names that
> are
> official.
> 
> These are our current observations that Freddy Pranajaya has compiled
> from
> various reports and posted on the NLS-4 web page:
> 	http://www.utias-sfl.net/NLS-4
> 
> CURRENT OBSERVATIONS
> ----------------------------------------
> Object A - 32783 - Cartosat-2A
> Object B - 32784 - CanX-6 (NTS)
>    We have just completed a pass, NTS is now in Application Mode.
>    S-band tracking seems to be very accurate on this object.
> Object C - 327585 - Cute-1.7+APDII
>    This is based on latest observations from this morning (EDT).
>    K. Arita -- We tracked Object-C in the today's 3rd pass and the
>    result was very fine. Auto doppler correction works perfect and
>    the condition of communication was good. Now, I believe that
>    Object-C is Cute."
> Object D - 32786 - IMS-1
>    An inquiry has been sent to the IMS-1 team in India, to see
>    whether this TLE corresponds with their operations parameter.
> Object E - 32787 - CanX-2
>    Using this object, we are tracking CanX-2 accurately with our
>    S-band dish.
> Object F - 32788 - (AAUSat-II ?)
> Object G - 32789 - (SEEDS ?)
> Object H - 32790 - (Delfi-C3 ?)
> Object J - 32791 - COMPASS-1
>    COMPASS1 is currently working with the TLE data for object 32791.
> Object K - 32792 - RUBIN-8/PSLV
> 
> 
> > Also, I read somewhere that CANX-2 also transmits on 2407.650 MHz.
> Can
> > someone confirm that this is operational too?
> 
> An early plan for CanX-2 was to have a downlink on 2407.650 MHz.
> However, given
> that we would be downloading data from our science experiments on this
> channel,
> we coordinated frequencies in the Space Research Science S-band.
> 
> 73,
> -Daniel, VA3KKZ
> 
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