[amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas

[B J]

On 9/28/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) <cm2esp at frcuba.co.cu> wrote:
> Regarding Canada's Space Program, did you know that Canada's oldie satellite
>
> Allouette-2 is back to live???, or at least its transmitters.....
>
> While I was monitoring the 136-138 satellite sub-band a couple of months ago
>
> with a RTL2832U based cheap SDR dongle I founded weird doppler shifted
> signals not matching any known transmitting satellite. After reporting it on
>
> the HearSat mailing list and posterior confirmation from Mike Kenny in
> Australia the best match was Canadian old satellite Allouete-2 launched in
> 1965.

I found a tracking URL for it:

http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25058

Apparently it re-entered on 1999-12-15 and NASA has nothing on it:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1965-098L

Alouette-1, on the other hand, is still in orbit:

http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=424

and here's what NASA has on it:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1962-049A

Now you've got me interested.....

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL