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Space Bulletin 001
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From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT January 9, 2007
To all radio amateurs
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ARLS001 ANDE and RAFT-1 get OSCAR numbers
AMSAT OSCAR coordinator Bill Tynan, W3XO, has announced that the RAFT-1 and ANDE Amateur Radio CubeSats have been issued OSCAR numbers. Both spacecraft were placed into Earth orbit from the spaceshuttle Discovery on December 21 and are projects of US Naval Academy midshipmen. RAFT-1 has been designated as NAV-OSCAR-60 or NO-60. ANDE has been designated as NAV-OSCAR-61, or NO-61.
''AMSAT-NA and I wish to congratulate you and your entire US Naval Academy Satellite Lab team for the successful construction, testing and orbiting of this very interesting spacecraft,'' Tynan said, responding to the request to assign OSCAR numbers.
The RAFT-1 and ANDE ham radio payloads digipeat 1200 bps packet on 145.825 MHz. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, of the US Naval Academy Satellite Lab says that when RAFT-1 and ANDE are within view of each other, dual-hop packet relays are possible via the two satellites. When it's enabled, RAFT-1 has a PSK31 uplink from 28.117 to 28.120 MHz with the downlink also on 145.825 MHz.
For more information, visit the ANDE, RAFT, NMARS & FCAL Operations Web page, www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html.
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