[W6YRA] SMAP launch with cubesats next Thursday

[Kyle Colton]

It looks like the 8am pass is the popular one. I'll be there.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Kyle Colton <ky.colton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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