{"id":241435,"date":"2016-06-11T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=29719"},"modified":"2016-06-11T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:15:39","slug":"lightsail-2-to-send-morse-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241435","title":{"rendered":"LightSail-2 to send Morse code"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_29727\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/lightsail-2-2016-05-24-credit-the-planetary-society.jpg?w=593\" alt=\"LightSail-2 - Credit The Planetary Society\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LightSail-2 &#8211; Credit The Planetary Society<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Planetary Society CubeSat LightSail-2 will transmit Morse code from space, and you can make the sound your ringtone<\/p>\n<p>Jason Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrdavis\" >@jasonrdavis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2016\/20160609-lightsail-2-morse-code.html\" >reports<\/a> that during last year&#8217;s LightSail-1 mission (call sign KK6HIT), dozens of radio enthusiasts around the wrote in to tell us they heard our solar sailing CubeSat chattering away in low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Every few seconds, LightSail automatically transmits a beacon packet. These packets can be picked up by ground stations and decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry that describe the spacecraft&#8217;s health and status. Everything from battery current to solar sail deployment motor state is included. We still plan to better support the worldwide radio community&#8217;s efforts to help us capture those packets; that work is temporarily on the back burner while the engineering team focuses on getting the spacecraft ready for delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Many off-the-shelf CubeSat software packages also have an option to transmit Morse code beacons, and for the LightSail 2 mission, we&#8217;re activating this feature. Every 45 seconds, the spacecraft will transmit &#8220;L-S-2,&#8221; and radio operators tuned in to the spacecraft&#8217;s 437.325 megahertz frequency should be able to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full The Planetary Society story at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2016\/20160609-lightsail-2-morse-code.html\" >http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/2016\/20160609-lightsail-2-morse-code.html<\/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=29719&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Planetary Society CubeSat LightSail-2 will transmit Morse code from space, and you can make the sound your ringtone Jason Davis @jasonrdavis reports that during last year&rsquo;s LightSail-1 mission (call sign KK6HIT), dozens of radio enthusiasts around the wrote in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/06\/11\/lightsail-2-morse-code\/\">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=29719&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-241435","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\/241435","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=241435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241539,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241435\/revisions\/241539"}],"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=241435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}