[amsat-bb] Pratham: IITB Student Satellite

[Aayush Yadav]

Hello all,

We are glad to inform you that Pratham, IITB's Student Satellite is
expected to launch with the help of PSLV-C35 on 26th September, 2016 at
9:12 AM.
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The following are the TLE data for the satellite:

16005A      16270.25119097     0.00000311       00000-0     59418-4     0
 1232
98.2057    329.0542    0028038    267.7677   9.1998   14.63716875    11

Any update in these will be notified at the earliest. We would love you all
to be a part of the project and help us in tracking our satellite.
There are basically
two downlink for the satellite, The beacon is estimated to switch on in the
window of 25-30 degrees North and 4-8 degrees East as per the current
TLE's. Once switched on, it will remain so through out it's orbit. The
telemetry data will be switched on only over France and India because of
our power constraints. If you could, please receive the beacon and/or
telemetry of the satellite and report back to the mail id's as given below.
The information for the satellite transmissions is given below,

Beacon:
Frequency: 145.98 MHz
Modulation: CW
Words per minute: 30
Power Emitted: 0.2 W (23 dBm)

Telemetry:
To be switched on only over India and France
Modulation: FSK
Rate: 1200 bps
Power Emitted: 0.06 W (18 dBm)

For any other Information you may visit our website
<http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/pratham/>. Also feel free to contact our
Communication and Ground station team, (Rachana Agarwal,
rachna.agrawal.04 at gmail.com; and Aayush Yadav, aayushyadav825 at gmail.com)
for any queries you may have.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your wishes.
>
> The FSK downlink contains only the health monitoring data of the satellite
> and is used for payload calculations. IPGP university in france requested
> us for the payload data for their scientific research thus we are switching
> on the telemetry only over India and France.
>
> However the CW beacon will be on through out the orbit and can be received
> from anywhere.
>
> Kind regards,
> Team Pratham
>
>
> On Thursday 8 September 2016, Nitin Muttin <vu3tyg at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi Team Pratham,
>>
>> Thanks for the update and will look forward for a successful launch and
>> deployment of your satellite. Please share why the FSK downlink on 437.455
>> Mhz is activated over France and India.
>>
>> 73
>> Nitin [VU3TYG]
>> Secretary, AMSAT INDIA
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Aayush Yadav <aayushyadav825 at gmail.com>
>> *To:* "amsat-bb at amsat.org" <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 September 2016 10:25 PM
>> *Subject:* [amsat-bb] Pratham: IITB Student Satellite
>>
>> Greetings everyone,
>>
>> We, students of IIT Bombay, are glad to inform you that our project,
>> Pratham, is ready and expected to launch with PSLV-C35 in the last week of
>> September. We would be really happy if  you all joined us in receiving our
>> satellite's beacon, details given below:
>>
>> Beacon:
>> Mode: CW
>> wpm: 35 words
>> Frequency: 145.980 MHz
>>
>> Downlink:
>> Mode: FSK
>> Baudrate: 1200 bps
>> Frequency: 437.455 MHz
>> (To be switched on over France and India only)
>>
>> We will update the information as soon as TLE's will be available.
>>
>> Kind Regards.
>> Team Pratham
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