[AMSAT-UK] OK1DFC and PE1ITR report DESPATCH beacon at 4.7 million km
 

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OK1DFC and PE1ITR report DESPATCH beacon at 4.7 million km

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 01:48 PM PST
http://amsat-uk.org/2014/12/15/ok1df...patch-4-7m-km/

ARTSAT2-DESPATCH received by Zdenek Samek OK1DFC on December 14, 2014 at
21:18:41 UT

Zdenek Samek OK1DFC and Rob Hardenberg PE1ITR reported receiving the
amateur radio beacon from the ARTSAT2:DESPATCH spacecraft on December 14 at
a distance of 4,700,000 km.

Congratulations to both radio amateurs on a remarkable achievement.

The amateur radio spacecraft ARTSAT2:DESPATCH JQ1ZNN and Shin’en2 JG6YIG
were launched on their journey to deep space at 04:22:04 UT on Wednesday,
December 3, 2014. The two spacecraft will have an elliptic orbit around the
Sun and travel to a deep space orbit between Venus and Mars. The
inclination will be almost zero, which means the spacecraft should stay in
the Earth’s equatorial plane. The distance from the Sun will be between 0.7
and 1.3 AU. An Astronomical Unit (AU) is 149,597,871 km.

OK1DFC website http://www.ok1dfc.com/

See images of the reception of ARTSAT2:DESPATCH byÂ*Rob Hardenberg PE1ITR at
http://www.pe1itr.com/artsat2despatch/

PE1ITR Shinen2 reception http://www.pe1itr.com/shinen2/
Shinen2 on left ARTSAT2:DESPATCH on right

Tracking utilities for the DESPATCH and Shin’en2 spacecraft are available at

http://ji1izr.air-nifty.com/ham_sate...ish/index.html

Shin’en2 437.385 MHz http://www.shin-en2.jp/index_E.html

ARTSAT2:DESPATCH 437.325 MHz CW

Web http://despatch.artsat.jp/en/Main_Page

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/artsat

Twitter https://twitter.com/DESPATCH_ARTSAT

DESPATCH reception reports are summarized at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...b6g/edit#gid=0

http://despatch.artsat.jp/en/Coopera...Reconstruction

Ham radio spacecraft launched into deep space

http://amsat-uk.org/2014/12/03/ham-r...to-deep-space/