[amsat-bb] Re: Preliminary TLE's For Mondays Vega Launch

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 Hi Mark / group

Thanks for that.

If you've run the keps you will have seen that the satellites will be over the East Coast of the USA just 15 minutes after they start transmitting.  AOS  for the East coast is around 1 hour 50 minutes after launch. Some of the University ground stations will not hear their own signals for 5 hours.

>From launch,  Vega travels north up the Atlantic and deploys the cubesats about half an orbit later to the south of Australia.
Allowing a little time to move apart, the sats start transmitting over the Pacific to the West of Chile.  15 mins later  they are in range of Florida and the East coast.
The telemetry and signal levels should be interesting as they seem to be in almost constant sunlight and the altitude varies from 1450km down to 300km.

www.videocorner.tv     for launch coverage.

73

David

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
To: Trevor . <m5aka at yahoo.co.uk>; amsat-bb <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:00
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Preliminary TLE's For Mondays Vega Launch


Here is an updated version of the info for SatPC32, to match the name/case in 
the TLE's posted by Trever.

MASAT,437345.0,145950,USB,FM,Nor,0,0,GFSK 625/1250BPS,CW
ALMASat-1,437465.0,145950,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 packet
ALMASat-1,2407850.0,435100.0,FM,FM,Nor,2256000.0,0, Sband FM
UNICUBESAT,437305.0,145950,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,9k6 packet
UNICUBESAT,437345.0,145950,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,9k6 packet
PW-SAT,145900.0,435020.0,USB,FM,Nor,0,0,12kBPSK and xpdr 
PW-SAT,145902.0,435032.0,USB,FM,Nor,0,0,12kBPSK and xpdr 
GOLIAT,437485,145900.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK
ESTAR,437445,145900.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK
ROBUSTA,437325,145900.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK
XATCOBEO,437365,145940.0,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK Simplex
XATCOBEO,145940.0,437365,FM,FM,Nor,0,0,1k2 AFSK SSR dwnlnk


By the way---if you are having trouble with the TLEs as posted---try opening the 
.TXT file from within Word; copy the info, and paste into a new .TXT file.  That 
fixed the LF/CR issues I was seeing...



73,

Mark N8MH



At 05:23 PM 2/12/2012 +0000, Trevor . wrote:
>Preliminary sets of TLE's for a launch at 1000, 1100 or 1200 UT are available 
via
>
>http://www.uk.amsat.org/4460
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>73 Trevor M5AKA
>AMSAT-UK: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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