{"id":243529,"date":"2016-11-10T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30845"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:05:10","slug":"middle-school-students-fm-transponder-satellite-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243529","title":{"rendered":"Middle School Students\u2019 FM Transponder Satellite Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_30846\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-students.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-students.jpg?w=593&#038;h=445\" alt=\"Middle School Students\" width=\"593\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-students.jpg?w=593&amp;h=445 593w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-students.jpg?w=150&amp;h=113 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-students.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-students.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle School Students<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42 UT November 9, 2016. It is a 2U CubeSat carrying a ham radio 145\/435 MHz FM transponder. CAS-2T will not be separated from the final stage of rocket, so the orbital life may be 10 to 30 days since the final stage of rocket will be re-entry atmosphere.<\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_30847\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-145-435-mhz-fm-transponder-cubesat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30847\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-145-435-mhz-fm-transponder-cubesat.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225\" alt=\"CAS-2T 145\/435 MHz FM Transponder CubeSat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-145-435-mhz-fm-transponder-cubesat.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225 300w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-145-435-mhz-fm-transponder-cubesat.jpg?w=150&amp;h=113 150w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/cas-2t-145-435-mhz-fm-transponder-cubesat.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CAS-2T 145\/435 MHz FM Transponder CubeSat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amateur radio payloads:<br \/>\nCW Telemetry Beacon\uff1a435.710 MHz<br \/>\nFM Transponder Uplink\uff1a145.925 MHz<br \/>\nFM Transponder Downlink\uff1a435.615 MHz<\/p>\n<p>Launch vehicle: CZ-11(Y2) solid rocket<br \/>\nLaunch time: 23:42, 9-Nov-2016<br \/>\nEpoch time: +620.615 seconds<br \/>\nInclination degree: 97.400985 degrees<br \/>\nRA of node degree:<br \/>\nEccentricity: 1.77E-4<br \/>\nPerigee degree: 328.206969 degrees<br \/>\nMean anomaly degree: 198.226766 degrees<br \/>\nPeriod: 5685.564 seconds<br \/>\nSpeed: 7607.496391 m\/s<br \/>\nLongitude: 93.693693E<br \/>\nLatitude: 13.531945N<\/p>\n<p>73!<br \/>\nAlan Kung, BA1DU<br \/>\nCAMSAT<\/p>\n<p>Associated links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaspaceflight.com\/satellite\/fengtai-shaonian-01.html\" >https:\/\/www.chinaspaceflight.com\/satellite\/fengtai-shaonian-01.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=30845&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAS-2T a technical verification satellite for CAMSAT CAS-2 series amateur radio satellite launched at 23:42 UT November 9, 2016. It is a 2U CubeSat carrying a ham radio 145\/435 MHz FM transponder. CAS-2T will not be separated from the final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/11\/10\/student-fm-transponder-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=30845&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-243529","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\/243529","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=243529"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253441,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243529\/revisions\/253441"}],"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=243529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}