[amsat-bb] Re: BEVO1 Deployment from STS-127

[Karla Vega]

Hi Nigel,

Dragonsat was the designation for both Aggiesat2 and Bevo1. They were
ejected together from the SSPL, but it appears that they failed to separate.
 Here is an official update:

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Still no signals from BEVO1, although beacon packets were heard from
AggieSat2. The current theory on the state of the satellites is that
only partial separation occurred. The inhibit switches keeping the
satellites powered off have been closed, allowing the satellites to
boot up. However, it is likely that the antennas did not deploy
correctly, leaving the antennas disconnected from their respective
transmitters. AggieSat2 transmits with 1W of power so it is easier to
hear, while BEVO1 only transmits with 200mW during beacon mode.
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UT Austin has also posted some pictures here:

http://paradigm.ae.utexas.edu/ops/

Thanks for all your help!

Karla Vega
KE5FKU

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <nigel at ngunn.net>wrote:

> Space-Track doesn't appear to have seen BEVO.
> Was it physically seperate from Dragonsat or on the same spaceframe?
>
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> Karla Vega wrote:
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>> The University of Texas at Austin deployed BEVO1 in space on July 30, 2009
>> at 7:27 AM CDT via the STS-127 Space Shuttle Picosatellite Launcher
>> (SSPL).
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>