[amsat-bb] AO-92 camera results

[Robert McGwier]

What he said

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Zach Leffke <zleffke at vt.edu> wrote:

> In an attempt to behave differently than I normally do...I'll try to keep
> this one short.
>
> Quick warning....I'm speaking personally here, not on behalf of VT or
> anything, though I know there are many that share my sentiments here.
>
> This entire experience would not have been possible without AMSAT and the
> Amateur Radio community.  And I don't just mean the obviously awesome folks
> that are on the Engineering team and the Operations team that have helped
> us so much along the way.  I also mean everyone out there collecting
> telemetry and forwarding to the server.  We wouldn't have made it without
> the entire community backing us up, and we recognize that!
>
> So for all of AMSAT and everyone else, HUGE thank you from VT.  I hope the
> partnership continues for as long as possible with as many missions as
> possible.
>
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Zach, KJ4QLP
>
> Research Associate
> Aerospace Systems Lab
> Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology
> Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
> Work Phone: 540-231-4174
> Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
>
>
> On 1/16/2018 12:34 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
>
>>
>> For those that have not been following AMSAT on Twitter or Facebook, we
>> have
>> done a few camera runs with AO-92 with very good results. A pass this
>> morning yielded 4 good images, two of which I have located their position
>> on
>> the ground. The images can be seen at
>> http://www.amsat.org/tlm/fox1d/images/index1.html
>>
>>
>> Some side by side comparisons with Google Earth and NOAA images can be
>> found
>> at: https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/953294176933896195 and
>> https://twitter.com/AMSAT/status/953304248162406401 .
>>
>>
>> Congratulations again to Virginia Tech, and thanks for providing the
>> camera
>> experiments for AO-92 and Fox-1Cliff!
>>
>>
>> 73, Drew KO4MA
>>
>> AMSAT VP Operations
>>
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Bob McGwier
Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc
Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc
Research Professor Virginia Tech
Chief Scientist:  The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and
Technology
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