Thursday, December 26, 2013

New Satellite planed for Launch in January 2014 from ISS

LituanicaSAT-1 with amateur radio FM transponder to deploy from ISS.
( Launch at 1:32 pm EST on Wednesday, January 8 2014)
You should be able to here this satellite on the webSDR http://zr6aic.giga.co.za:8902


This satellite will be the first Lithuanian satellite.
Payload
1) VGA camera.
2) GPS receiver.
3) UHF CW beacon 100mW.
4) 9k6 AX25 FSK telemetry TX 2 watts.
5) FM Mode V/U transponder 150mW Voice Repeater.

  • FM Transponder Uplink 145.950 MHz Downlink 435.180 MHz 
  • AX25 Uplink 145.850 MHz AX25 Downlink 437.550 MHz 
  • CW Beacon 437.275 MHz 

 Read more at http://amsat-uk.org/2013/04/12/lituanicasat-1/  , http://ly3h.epalete.com/?p=371 and here http://www.kosmonautai.lt/en/