[amsat-bb] AO-95 Rx problem

[Adam Whitney]

This is still largely in the realm of science fiction, but I’ve been fascinated by the concept of the US Naval Academy’s RSAT-P that launched yesterday on NASA’s ELaNa CubeSat launch. It’s testing the ability for the   RSAT to inspect and repair other satellites in orbit. It will eventually be maneuvered into position by a TUGSAT. The possibilities for at least an inspection to help diagnose problems are intriguing!

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/rsat-p.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Satellite_Program_(United_States_Naval_Academy)#RSat-P

73!
Adam, K0FFY

> On Dec 16, 2018, at 19:02, Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> EVERYTHING is hard to fix in orbit ;) 
> 
> Mark N8MH 
> 
> At 03:44 PM 12/16/2018 -0600, Mike Thompson wrote:
>> When I heard about the troubles, that's kind of the first thing I was
>> thinking too, maybe the antenna broke off.
>> Hope that isn't the case though, because that's awful hard to fix while in
>> orbit.
>> 
>>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 3:31 PM Francis Geraci <fgeraci14 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> First off, I do not want to "2nd guess" the Engineering team.
>>> 
>>> JUst read the "post" that AO-95 was still very close to another "object".
>>> 
>>> I just was wondering,  if AO-95 is TOO close to another "object", maybe
>>> "object" is "blocking" the RX antenna, or did RX antenna get "knocked" off
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Opinions ?  Everybody has them. HiHi
>>> 
>>> Francis - W1FXX
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