{"id":240853,"date":"2016-04-30T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=29124"},"modified":"2016-04-30T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T19:51:44","slug":"tomsk-tpu-120-cubesat-celebrates-university-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240853","title":{"rendered":"Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat celebrates University anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_29127\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29127\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/tomsk-tpu-120-cubesat-credit-tomsk-polytechnic-university.jpg?w=640&#038;h=340\" alt=\"Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat - Credit Tomsk Polytechnic University\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat &#8211; Credit Tomsk Polytechnic University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Russian <a href=\"http:\/\/tpu.ru\/en\/news-events\/760\/\" >Tomsk-TPU-120<\/a> CubeSat is different from other CubeSats &#8211; it has a handle!<\/p>\n<p>The 3U CubeSat was launched\u00a0from Baikonur to the ISS on March 31, 2016 in a Progress-MS-2 cargo vessel. It will be deployed by hand during a future Russian spacewalk (EVA), which is why it has a handle.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite was developed by students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University to test new space materials technology and will be the world&#8217;s first space vehicle with a 3D-printed structure.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2016 Tomsk Polytechnic University celebrates its 120th anniversary. As part of the celebrations on <strong>May 10-11<\/strong> Tomsk-TPU-120 will be activated in the ISS and will transmit a greeting to Earth inhabitants, recorded by students of the university in 10 languages: Russian, English, German, French, Chinese, Arabic, Tatar, Indian, Kazakh and Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>The greeting signal will be transmitted once a minute on <strong>437.025 MHz FM<\/strong>. One of the Kenwood transceivers (TM D700) on the ISS will provide a cross-band relay, re-transmitting the signal on <strong>145.800 MHz FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB<\/strong> reports that on May 5 the Russian ISS crew will charge the satellite battery, connect the antenna and configure the Kenwood transceiver for relay operation, they will then make a test transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry operates a WebSDR which you can use to receive the transmissions when the ISS is over Russia <a href=\"http:\/\/websdr.r4uab.ru\/\" >http:\/\/websdr.r4uab.ru\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next Russian spacewalk appears to be EVA-43 which expected to take place in early 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight101.com\/iss\/iss-calendar\/\" >http:\/\/spaceflight101.com\/iss\/iss-calendar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Use Google translator to read original article by Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB <a href=\"http:\/\/r4uab.ru\/?p=11845\" >http:\/\/r4uab.ru\/?p=11845<\/a><\/p>\n<p>World\u2019s First 3D-printed Satellite <a href=\"http:\/\/tpu.ru\/en\/news-events\/760\/\" >http:\/\/tpu.ru\/en\/news-events\/760\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=29124&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Tomsk-TPU-120 CubeSat is different from other CubeSats &ndash; it has a handle! The 3U CubeSat was launched&nbsp;from Baikonur to the ISS on March 31, 2016 in a Progress-MS-2 cargo vessel. It will be deployed by hand during a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/04\/30\/tomsk-tpu-120-cubesat\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=29124&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241146,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853\/revisions\/241146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}