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- Space Bulletin 005 ARLS005
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington, CT February 2, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB SPACE ARL ARLS005
- ARLS005 STS-60/SAREX update
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- Shuttle To Carry Amateur Radio Experiment
-
- Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-60, is set for launch February
- 3 at 1210 UTC (7:10 AM EST) from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape
- Canaveral, Florida. The mission is scheduled to last 8 days. All
- Shuttle air-to-ground audio is typically retransmitted by the
- following Amateur Radio clubs: Goddard Amateur Radio Club, WA3NAN,
- on 3.86, 7.185, 14.295, 21.395, 28.65 and 147.45 MHz. Johnson Space
- Center Amateur Radio Club, W5RRR, on 3.850, 7.227, 14.280, 21.350,
- 28.400 and 146.64 MHz.
-
- The mission will carry the Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment payload.
- Schools in Boise ID, Chariton IA, Sidney ME, Mars PA, and the House
- of Science and Technology for Youth in central Moscow (Russia) are
- scheduled to contact the crew during the flight. There will also be
- opportunities for random contacts with the Amateur Radio community
- as the astronauts' primary work schedules may permit.
-
- Look for the following licensed crew members. Commander Charles
- Bolden, KE4IQB, and Mission Specialists Ronald Sega, KC5ETH and
- Sergei K. Krikalev, U5MIR.
-
- SAREX hardware Configuration C will be flown. This configuration
- includes 2- meter FM voice and packet. The worldwide voice and
- packet downlink frequency is 145.55 MHz. Please do not transmit on
- this receive-only frequency. The voice uplink frequencies are
- 144.91, 144.93, 144.95, 144.97, and 144.99 MHz. In Europe, the
- voice uplink frequencies are 144.70, 144.75, and 144.80 MHz. The
- worldwide packet uplink frequency is 144.49 MHz. The packet call
- sign is W5RRR-1.
-
- The following are prelaunch Keplerian elements for a launch on
- February 3 at 1210 UTC.
-
- STS-60
- 1 00060U 94034.56756353 .00033600 00000-0 25200-3 0 47
- 2 00060 57.0033 215.8607 0010675 264.1500 95.8328 15.72291901 26
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- Satellite: STS-60
- Catalog number: 00060
- Epoch time: 94034.56756353 (03 FEB 94 13:37:17.49 UTC)
- Element set: 004
- Inclination: 57.0033 deg
- RA of node: 215.8607 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-60
- Eccentricity: .0010675 Prelaunch Element set JSC-004
- Arg of perigee: 264.1500 deg Launch: 03 FEB 94 12:10 UTC
- Mean anomaly: 95.8328 deg
- Mean motion: 15.72291901 rev/day Gil Carman, WA5NOM
- Decay rate: 3.3600e-04 rev/day sq NASA Johnson Space Center
- Epoch rev: 2
- Checksum: 254
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- For more information on SAREX, contact the ARRL Educational Activities
- Department, 225 Main Street, Newington CT 06111.
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