[W6YRA] SMAP launch with cubesats next Thursday

[Kyle Colton]

If you are interested in being around for the passes tomorrow evening, we
ask that you go to a pass earlier in the day. Or if you just want to go to
a satellite pass, that works too. Here are those passes:

0800 - 0815: Vermont Lunar, 80 max EL
0940 - 1000: Vermont Lunar, 32 max EL
1020 - 1040: CubeBug-2, 32 max EL
1115 - 1130: Vermont Lunar, 29 max EL

Room: Boelter 8761
Take the South-West elevator or stairs to the top / 8th floor / penthouse,
and the room is right next to the elevator.

Please email me if you are planning to come to one. If you don't email me,
don't expect me to be there. If anything changes tonight or tomorrow, I'll
send out an email.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Ryan Caron <rcaron at igpp.ucla.edu> wrote:

> ELFINs and Bruin Amateur Radio Club members,
>
> A Delta II is flying out of Vandenberg AFB next Thursday morning at 6:20AM
> local time. http://spaceflightnow.com/tag/smap/
>
> The launch *may* be visible from Los Angeles. If so I will forward
> additional information from this great mailing list that you may want to
> join http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/launch-alert
>
> Onboard the upper stage are 3 PPODs with 4 CubeSats inside:
>
> GRIFEX: 3U. 9k6 with an Astrodev Li-1 radio  437.485 MHz
> EXOCUBE: 3U. Variable up to 38k4 with a CW preamble 437.270 MHz
> FIREBIRD-IIA (FU3): 1.5U 19k2 with an Astrodev Li-1 radio on 437.405 MHz
> FIREBIRD-IIB (FU4): 1.5U 19k2 with an Astrodev Li-1 radio on 437.230 MHz
>
> This information and preliminary TLEs are available at
> http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=54555
>
> Based on this orbital information, we'll have a pass Thursday starting at
> 5:01PM local time (orbit 7). We'll be tracking in Boelter (since Knudsen
> isn't online yet). For those of you that haven't seen an early-orbit
> satellite pass, I'd encourage you to attend, but only if you attend a clean
> pass from an established satellite first (Kyle and I will pick out a few
> convenient ones and send out another email).
>
> Based on our current capabilities, we'll be focusing on GRIFEX and
> EXOCUBE. However, it is important to note that the Firebirds are the ones
> that resemble ELFIN the most from an RF perspective.
>
> 73,
> NX1U
>
> --
> Ryan Caron
> Associate Development Engineer
> UCLA - Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
> Tel 310-267-0696   |   Cell 603-801-8233
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