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- ARLS048 New Satellites in Orbit
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- Space Bulletin 048 ARLS048
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington, CT September 27, 1993
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB SPACE ARL ARLS048
- ARLS048 New Satellites in Orbit
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- Three new Amateur Radio satellites are now in orbit: KITSAT-B,
- ITAMSAT, and AMRAD (part of the Eyesat satellite). They were
- launched from French Guiana at approximately 0147 UTC September 27
- aboard an ARIANE V59 rocket. The satellites were deployed 20
- minutes later and all appear to be functioning normally at this
- time. Amateurs are asked not to use the satellites until their
- check-out phase has been completed.
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- All three spacecraft are packet satellites. KITSAT-B was designed
- and built by the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and
- Technology. ITAMSAT is a product of AMSAT-Italy and AMRAD was
- designed and built by the AMRAD group in the United States.
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- Frequencies: KITSAT-B 145.870/145.980 MHz (uplink)
- 435.175/436.500 MHz (downlink)
- Data format/rate: FM FSK, 9600 bps
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- ITAMSAT 145.875/145.900/145.925/145.950 MHz (uplink)
- 435.867 MHz (downlink)
- Data format/rate: Manchester FM,
- 1200 bps (uplink) PSK, 1200 bps (downlink)
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- AMRAD 145.850 MHz (uplink)
- 436.900 MHz (downlink)
- Data format/rate: FM FSK, 9600 bps
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- See the October issue of QST magazine, page 98, for more
- information. Keplerian elements will be relayed as soon as they are
- available.
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- Congratulations to all teams on a very successful launch.
- NNNN
- /EX
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