[amsat-bb] Re: RAX-2 Launch In 30 Minutes

[James Cutler]

Launch was great.  PPods have deployed!  First transmission in about 30
minutes or so.

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Jeff Yanko <wb3jfs at cox.net> wrote:

> Watched the launch from Las Vegas, NV.  It rose over the Spring Mountians
> and arced southwestly and just before it disappeared behind the neighbors
> rooftop, the first stage seperation occured.  At first, it looked like a
> plane then I noticed the exhaust plume as it got bigger as it gained
> altitude.
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> 73,
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> Jeff  WB3JFS
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Herbert" <ke6zgp at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] RAX-2 Launch In 30 Minutes
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>  They're in the final hold, weather is awesome and everything looks good to
>> go for the 0948 UTC launch. Much like RAX-1, RAX-2 will have an Amateur
>> Radio beacon spitting out 500mW of 9600 baud GMSK every 20 seconds from it's
>> right handed circularly polarized antenna... Such a spunky lil bird... Once
>> she reaches orbit and the ground stations are able to track her they will
>> upload the TLE data to their site.
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>> http://rax.engin.umich.edu/?**page_id=308<http://rax.engin.umich.edu/?page_id=308>
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