[W6YRA] SMAP launch with cubesats next Thursday

[Kyle Colton]

In light of the launch scrub, we'll be postponing this until later. Sorry
for the late notice, have a good morning.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/01/ula-delta-ii-smap-mission/

I won't be at the pass at 8am this morning.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Kyle Colton <ky.colton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>
>>
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