[AMSAT-UK] EASAT-2 and Hades launch delayed again
 

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EASAT-2 and Hades launch delayed again

Posted: 30 May 2021 09:08 AM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2021/05/30/easa...delayed-again/

AMSAT-EA Hades PocketQube

Spains URE reports the launch of EASAT-2 and Hades satellites have suffered
another delay.

A translation of the URE post reads:

EASAT-2 and Hades, the communications satellites for radio amateurs built
by AMSAT-EA, will not be able to be launched in June with SpaceX as
planned, as the FAA (the American Aviation Administration) has rejected the
license to the integrator Momentus Space, On whose orbital transfer vehicle
Vigoride was to be mounted the AlbaPOD ejector from Alba Orbital, within
which are the satellites of AMSAT EA, as well as other organizations and
universities.

The reasons for the FAAs rejection stem from the companys capital
structure, which, according to the American agency, could endanger the
national security of the United States. The next launch opportunity could
come in December.

EASAT-2 and Hades were to have been launched in January this year aboard a
SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, but the Momentus license was also rejected by the
FAA at the time.

Both satellites are FM and FSK voice repeaters, also having digitized voice
recordings. Hades also incorporates an SSTV camera developed by the
University of Brno in the Czech Republic and EASAT-2 incorporates as an
experimental load a basaltic material from Lanzarote, similar to lunar
basalts, provided by the research group on meteorites and planetary
geosciences of the CSIC in the Institute of Geosciences, IGEO (CSIC-UCM)
and that it could be used as a construction material on the Moon. This
project was promoted and has the collaboration of the ETSICCP (UPM).

The frequencies coordinated with the IARU for both satellites are the
following:

EASAT-2

• 145.875 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (without sub-tone) and FSK 50 bps

• 436.666 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW, FSK 50 bps, FM voice beacon
with AM5SAT callsign

HADES

• 145.925 MHz uplink, Modes: FM voice (without sub-tone) and FSK 50 bps

• 436.888 MHz downlink, Modes: FM voice, CW FSK 50 bps, SSTV Robot 36, FM
voice beacon with callsign AM6SAT

Source URE https://tinyurl.com/IARU-Spain

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