[AMSAT-UK] D-STAR satellite to launch from Kourou
 

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D-STAR satellite to launch from Kourou

Posted: 05 Apr 2016 03:50 AM PDT
http://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/05/d-sta...h-from-kourou/

The entire Fly Your Satellite 2016 delegation with CubeSats in P-POD

The ESA Education Office Fly Your Satellite! (FYS) programme is designed to
train the next generation of aerospace professionals. Three chosen student
teams have each developed 1U CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads which
are expected to launch on April 22, 2016 into a 453 by 644 km 98.2 degree
inclination orbit.

The satellites designed and built by the student teams, arrived in South
America on Friday, March 25. Upon arrival, they were given a security
escort from the airport to the Guiana Space Centre, near Kourou. The
student teams arrived on March 28.

The satellites themselves are CubeSats. This class of small satellites have
helped revolutionise access to space. Made of standard components, as the
name suggests they come in modular dimensions of just 10x10x10cm in size.

On March 30 the students removed the so-called Remove Before Flight pins
and successfully verified that the CubeSats were ready for launch.
Afterwards, the lateral access ports of the P-POD were put back in place.Â*
The next time the students will have contact with their respective CubeSats
will be through the communication link after the satellites are deployed
into orbit. The next activities consist in completing the application of a
special thermal-optical tape on the outside of the P-POD, which will ensure
the unpowered CubeSats are shielded from extreme thermal radiation during
the launch phase. Finally, the planning for the next weeks will consist in
integrating the P-POD with the rest of the launcher.

OUFTI-1 from the University of Liege, Belgium, will be the first satellite
to carry a D-STAR transponder. The article D-STAR digital amateur
communications in space with OUFTI-1 CubeSat by Jonathan Pisane ON7JPD,
Amandine Denis ON4EYA and Jacques Verly ON9CWD can be seen in the June 2013
edition 202 of the AMSAT-UK publication OSCAR News.

e-st@r-II from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, will demonstrate an
attitude control system using measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field;
and AAUSAT4 from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, will operate an
automated ocean vessel identification system.

ESA Press Release

http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSat...ou _spaceport

IARU coordinated frequencies http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/

OUFTI-1 145.950 MHz FSK AX25 and D-STAR (uplink 435.045 MHz) CW beacon
145.980 MHz

e-st@r-II 437.485 MHz CW and 1k2 AFSK

AAUSAT-4 437.425 MHz