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ARISS SSTV Image Over Indonesia , 16:38 UTC 2016-04-13

ARISS SSTV Image Over Indonesia , 16:38 UTC 2016-04-13
ARISS commemorative event (April 11-14)

SSTV Image received 16:38 UTC

SSTV Image received 16:43 UTC

Archive page for Image Gallery http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/archive.php

Main Gallery http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php

SSTV mission blog http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/

ESA – Year in Images

Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF points at the Dargon spacecraft she just grappled on April 17, 2015 with the 16m-long ISS robotic arm

ESA has released a selection of favourite images from 2015, they include International Space Station astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF and Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS.
The images can be downloaded in high resolution by clicking on the “Access the image” link at the bottom of each image page.
ESA Year in Images http://www.esa.int/Highlights/Year_in_images

Astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS giving the thumbs up shortly after his arrival on the ISS

Source: http://amsat-uk.org/

Communication from Space Station ( Soyuz TMA-19M event ) on 130.167MHz 16:10UTC 15 Dec 2015 @OI71DQ

Check this out on Chirbit

Communication from Space Station ( Soyuz TMA-19M event ) on 130.167MHz 16:10UTC 15 Dec 2015 @OI71DQ... Record from RTLSDR R820 dongle and QFH antenna . Got noise at LOS condition

Amateur radios on ISS will be powered off

Amateur radios on ISS will be powered off to support numerous vehicle changes starting Dec 11 at 01:55 UTC and back on Dec 19.

Source: https://twitter.com/RF2Space

AAUSAT-5 LAUNCH MONDAY 5. October

At Fibigerstræde 15 (AAUs main cantina)
15:20 Doors open
15:40 Welcome, Dr Eskild Holm Nielsen, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University 
15:45 Introduction to AAUSAT5 and GomX-3 deployment from the ISS, Jens Schiemann, ESA ISS operations

LAUNCH FROM ISS:
15:55 AAUSAT5 and GomX-3 deployment: live link  from the ISS, commented by Andreas Mogensen, ESA astronaut

16:05 The AAUSAT5 mission, Prof Jens Frederik Dalsgaard Nielsen 
16:15 The GomX-3 mission, Lars Alminde, Chief Sales Officer, GomSpace
16:25 CubeSats at ESA, a new path for Education and Technology, Hugo Marée, Head of ESA Education and Knowledge Management Office, and Roger Walker, ESA Technology CubeSats Manager
16:40 Lecture: Living and working on the ISS, Andreas Mogensen
17:40 AAUSAT5 and GomX-3: what next?  Prof Jens Frederik Dalsgaard Nielsen, and Kim Toft Hansen, GomX-3 Project Manager, GomSpace
17:50 Q&A & interviews

18:00 AAUSAT5 goes active and starts emitting beacon

18:30 End of event at Fibigerstræde 15

At Fredrik Bajersvej 7C in our SpaceLab we have our local Houston Control Room

You are welcome to join us (300m walk from Fibigerstræde 15)

18:28 First pass to be received by our ground station in Austria 

WE HOPE TO HAVE CONTACT :-)

Next pass at:
20:04 AAU
20:05 Austria

Launch Info

We hope to be deployed from ISS some time between 5 and 8 October

Viewable passes (based on ISS TLE) with elevation greater than 10 degress will be something like: ( a pass will last less than 10 minuttes)

So ... it seems that - depending of time of ejection from ISS - be lot of time to listen to AAUSAT5 'before we will see it in Aalborg. We really hope that you will help us.

NB NB : Time on the images below is in UTC so add 2 hours to get european/danish time (CEST)

AAU passes the first days

Add to 2 hours to get european time (its UTC time)

AAU passes

TUW (Austria) passes the first days

Add to 2 hours to get european time (its UTC time)

TUW(Austria) passes

ISS CubeSats to deploy Monday, October 5

GomX-3 being built – Credit ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that two Danish CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads should be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, October 5

AAUSat-5 and Deployer – Credit ESA

Originally launched to the ISS on August 19, 2015 the two CubeSats, AAUSat-5 and GomX-3, will be deployed from the ISS Japanese Kibo module airlock. An astronaut will manipulate the Kibo robotic arm to lift AAUSAT-5 from the airlock and place it in orbit.
Once deployed from the ISS the CubeSat will begin transmitting signals to Earth that can be picked up by anyone with common amateur radio equipment. The frequencies to listen on are:
AAUSat-5 – 437.425 MHz with 30 WPM CW beacon every 3 minutes and 9600 bps GMSK packet every 30 seconds
GomX-3 – 437.250 MHz with 1200-9600 bps GMSK data from a NanoCom AX100 using CSP protocol
In addition to the amateur radio payloads new radio technology being demonstrated by GomX-3 will support the tracking of civil aircraft and measuring telecom satellite signal quality. AAUSat-5 will demonstrate the tracking of ships on the open sea.
ESA article CubeSats set for Monday Release (with video)
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_CubeSats_set_for_Monday_release
ESA invites radio amateurs to listen for AAUSat-5 CubeSat
http://amsat-uk.org/2015/09/24/esa-listen-for-aausat-5/

Kibo Robot Arm CubeSat Deployment

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