[AMSAT-UK] Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2
 

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Lunar Amateur Radio Satellites DSLWP-A1/A2

Posted: 18 Nov 2016 07:06 AM PST
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/11/18/luna...es-dslwp-a1a2/

Full Moon 2010 Credit Gregory H Revera

Mingchuan Wei BG2BHC reports DSLWP is a lunar formation flying mission for
low frequency radio astronomy, amateur radio and education, consists of 2
microsatellites.

Developed by students at the Harbin Institute of Technology the amateur
radio payload onboard DSLWP-A1 will provide telecommand uplink and
telemetry / digital image downlink. An open telecommand is also designed to
allow amateurs to send commands to take and download an image.

The satellites are 50x50x40 cm with a mass of about 45 kg and are 3-axis
stabilized. Two linear polarization antennas are mounted along and normal
to the flight direction.

The team proposes downlinks for A1 on 435.425 MHz and 436.425 MHz while
downlinks for A2 would be 435.400 MHz and 436.400 MHz using 10K0F1DCN or
10K0F1DEN 250 bps GMSK with concatenated codes or JT65B.

Planning a launch into a 200 x 9000 km lunar orbit in June 2018. Further
info at http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/

IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages
http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/