[amsat-bb] AO-95

[Mike Sprenger]

John,

I'm like you, grateful for a long series of great effort - Its a real
crescendo of work just to launch and commission one of these satellites
when everything goes per plan and works just right.

This time is a little different, we're probably going to learn more from
AO-95, I'm taking this as I need to start collecting telemetry to support
the need for more data to understand the status to see if more information
may be revealed yielding better results in the future.

As long as the satellite is up there making power and transmitting the
possibility exists we may use its transponder some day, takes no
imagination to point out AO-7 as that example.

*I'm offering my hearty Thank You* for a whole program of satellites
(AO-73,85,91,92, 95 ARISS et al), and hope that the entire Mission Team
thats been working on all of these satellites has a great Holiday season
with Family and Friends.  I hope to see you in Orlando soon.

73
Mike
W4UOO

On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 9:44 PM John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very sorry to all the engineers and others who worked on/with AO-95.
>
> Thanks for your service to the community.
>
> 73, John Brier KG4AKV
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018, 19:48 Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner at mindspring.com
> wrote:
>
> > Fred,
> >
> > Perhaps because there is little useful to be done or said at this point.
> > We don’t know, and may never know for sure what the exact failure is.
> Many
> > of those involved are also in some state of grieving right now after the
> > years of effort put into this little satellite. Space is hard, and we do
> > the best we can.
> >
> > Rest assured that we will continue to monitor the satellite for any
> > changes, and when the will to work the problem is a little stronger we
> will
> > seek out some mega-erp EME stations to try to wiggle the RSSI to further
> > diagnose the problem. Continued submission of telemetry is very important
> > to this end.
> >
> > 73, Drew, KO4MA
> > AMSAT VP Operations
> >
> >
> > > On Dec 9, 2018, at 7:17 PM, Fred Castello <fredcastello at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I am just curious why we are not discussing the apparent failure of the
> > receiver of AO-95.  Do we know anything more about the issue?
> > > Thanks all,
> > > Fred – KF4FC
> > >
> > >
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Thanks,
Mike Sprenger
(37.9167N  81.1244W is the Summit)