[amsat-bb] Re: DANDE launch

[Stefan Wagener]

Please see the IARU Frequency coordination request/status

...."Updated documentation received 03/08/2009. The group have been unable
to change their hardware to use a coordinated frequency proposed by the
panel. They will therefore operate on 436.750MHz under an experimental
license from the FCC...."

Stefan, VE4NSA


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Ronald Cox <w9kfb1 at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On Feb18th I visited 4 Labs at UC Boulder as a part of Lockheed-Martin's
> Engineering Explorer Post program (www.engpost.org) that meets every
> other Tuesday evening from September to May each year. I am sponsoring two
> young men without fathers as members of this Post. What was interesting to
> me and potentially other AMSAT members was that they are getting ready to
> launch a satellite named DANDE that will transmit in the 430 MHz Amateur
> Radio band using a "modified AX.25" packet radio protocol for the beacon
> and data. In the control room I saw the TS-2000 they are using for
> communications. The control room and all other activites for this satellite
> are located in the Colorado Space Grant Labs on the University of
> Colorado's Bolder Campus in the Discovery Learning Center. It is my
> understanding that a launch of this satellite could be as early as next
> month (March) as the hardware is now through testing and being prepared for
> launch on an experimental  Orbital-Science vehicle. !
>  I was told that the orbit would be very elliptical and that the DANDE was
> designed for low earth orbit, but this orbit will take it through the Van
> Allen belts, so the DANDE could have a more limited life as a result.
>
> For more info on DANDE I recommend the following sites:
>
> http://dande.colorado.edu/files/DANDE_AGU_POSTER.PNG
>
> http://dande.colorado.edu/files/pilinski_CEDAR_poster_2008_v4pr2.pdf
>
> http://spacegrant.colorado.edu
>
> http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/boulderstudents/boulderprojects/dande
>
> http://www.ofcm.gov/nswp-sp/pdf/NSWP-SP-1995-scan.pdf
>
> http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/dande-mission
>
> Ron, W9KFB AMSAT LM-0185
> Greenwood Village, CO
>
>
>
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