[amsat-bb] FW: LilacSat-1 Codec2 transponder activated + TY Sats + JY1-Sat

[Ray Hoad]

Ancient Chinese Curse: May you be born in interesting times.

Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
Orbital Elements Manager


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Tejera [mailto:SaguaroAstro at cox.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 20:42
To: 'Ray Hoad' <ray.hoad at mypbmail.com>; 'AMSAT' <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] FW: LilacSat-1 Codec2 transponder activated + TY
Sats + JY1-Sat

Ray, Thanks. Gets confusing for sure, but I suppose that a good problem to
have...

Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club
www.W7TBC.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Hoad [mailto:ray.hoad at mypbmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 6:25 PM
To: 'Rick Tejera' <SaguaroAstro at cox.net>; 'AMSAT' <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] FW: LilacSat-1 Codec2 transponder activated + TY
Sats + JY1-Sat

Lilacsat-1 is not one of the nine added last week. Lilacsat-1 was launched
today (5-25-2017). 

This week's KEP distribution will update who is who in the list of nine.
Lilacsat-1 is still and unknown, but here are the TLEs based on ISS TLEs
(you are correct) from http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?page_id=594

LilacSat-1             
1 25544U 98067A   17144.89781703  .00001573  00000-0  31242-4 0  9992
2 25544  51.6416 154.3996 0005308 189.3117 243.1127 15.53923882 58131

Note the Catalog Number is not real.

Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
Orbital Elements Manager

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Rick Tejera
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 19:34
To: 'AMSAT' <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Subject: [amsat-bb] FW: LilacSat-1 Codec2 transponder activated + TY Sats +
JY1-Sat

I see 9 QB50 birds added to the NASABARE set, do we know which one is
Lilacsat-1? Or are we still using ISS keps still the separate a bit more? 

Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club
www.W7TBC.org

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of M5AKA via
AMSAT-BB
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 12:57 PM
To: AMSAT BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Subject: [amsat-bb] LilacSat-1 Codec2 transponder activated + TY Sats +
JY1-Sat

Late afternoon on Thursday, May 25 GMT the FM to Codec2 Digital Voice
transponder on the LilacSat-1 CubeSat was switched-on
https://amsat-uk.org/2017/05/19/lilacsat-1-cubesat-iss/

Hunan Amateur Radio Society plan four 6U CubeSats TY2-TY3-TY4-TY5 to launch
Sept 15, 2017 carrying HF/VHF/UHF retransmitting experiments, any mode. Also
downlinks on 2.4 & 5.8 GHz and CW lamp signal comms experiment
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=556
February launch for Jordanian linear transponder and SSDV CubeSat
https://amsat-uk.org/2017/05/24/jordan-cubesat-jy1sat/

Ham Radio Awareness Program at Science City Ahmedabad
https://amsat-uk.org/2017/05/22/ham-radio-awareness-science-city/

QB50 ISS CubeSat Deployments Phase 2
https://amsat-uk.org/2017/05/20/qb50-iss-cubesats-phase-2/

Trevor M5AKA
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