{"id":665595,"date":"2020-09-01T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=665595"},"modified":"2020-09-01T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:26:13","slug":"vega-launch-of-three-satellites-with-ham-radio-payloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=665595","title":{"rendered":"Vega launch of three satellites with ham radio payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_34207\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/vv16-launchkit-cover-new.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34207\" data-attachment-id=\"34207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/09\/01\/vega-vv16\/vv16-launchkit-cover-new\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/vv16-launchkit-cover-new.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2183,3270\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VV16-launchkit-cover-new\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Vega VV16 launch&lt;\/p&gt;&#010;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/vv16-launchkit-cover-new.jpg?w=200\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/vv16-launchkit-cover-new.jpg?w=593\" class=\"wp-image-34207\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vv16-launchkit-cover-new.jpg\" alt=\"Vega VV16 launch\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-34207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vega VV16 launch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Christophe Mercier<\/strong> reports three satellites with amateur radio payloads will be on the Vega VV16 launch expected to take place in the early hours of September 2.<\/p>\n<p>On the AMSAT Bulletin Board he writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Vega rocket (VV16) is scheduled to leave Kourou on 02 September 2020 at 3h36 CEST with 53 satellites on board.<\/p>\n<p>One of the satellites that will be leaving is the Amicalsat satellite built by the CSUG (Centre Spatial Universitaire Grenoblois). The measurements made by the satellite will be available to all. They will allow radio amateurs to use them for propagation predictions.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s website (in English) has just been put online <a href=\"http:\/\/amicalsat.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/amicalsat.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Amsat-Francophone supported this project <a href=\"http:\/\/site.amsat-f.org\/amicalsat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/site.amsat-f.org\/amicalsat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A software (Linux &amp; Windows) is provided for decoding the telemetry and sending it to the database (SatNogs). The user manual is available (in English) <a href=\"https:\/\/code.electrolab.fr\/xtof\/josast\/-\/blob\/master\/ApplicationAmicalsat\/src\/site\/markdown\/UserManual.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/code.electrolab.fr\/xtof\/josast\/-\/blob\/master\/ApplicationAmicalsat\/src\/site\/markdown\/UserManual.md<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UHF 436.1 MHz AFSK 1200 RS17S<br \/>\nS band 2,415.3 MHz GFSK 1000 kb\/s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-f.org\/AMSATLIST\/SatellitePage\/UK\/0Amicalsat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/amsat-f.org\/AMSATLIST\/SatellitePage\/UK\/0Amicalsat.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports are welcome. Thank you for your help.<\/p>\n<p>The first 5 people who receive a frame from AmicalSat will receive a gift.<br \/>\nTo submit your frame uses the satnogs SIDS or email satellite@adri38.fr<\/p>\n<p>Two other satellites :<\/p>\n<p>UPMSat-2<br \/>\nUHF 437.405 MHz AFSK 1200 UPMST2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-f.org\/AMSATLIST\/SatellitePage\/UK\/0UPMSat-2%20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/amsat-f.org\/AMSATLIST\/SatellitePage\/UK\/0UPMSat-2%20.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TTU100<br \/>\nPrimary 435.450 MHz 1k2 and 9k6 and CW<br \/>\nSecondary 10465.000 MHz OPSK 62.5 kbs and 20 Mbs<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-f.org\/AMSATLIST\/SatellitePage\/UK\/0TT%C3%9C100%20(TT%C3%9CSat,%20MektorySAT%201,%20H%C3%A4marik)%20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/amsat-f.org\/AMSATLIST\/SatellitePage\/UK\/0TT%C3%9C100%20(TT%C3%9CSat,%20MektorySAT%201,%20H%C3%A4marik)%20.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TLE<br \/>\n1 74001U 20500A 20246.14839410 .00000000 00000-0 50000-4 0 05 2 74001<br \/>\n97.4424 319.0247 0002779 53.5911 328.5572 15.10021350 09<\/p>\n<p>73<\/p>\n<p>Christophe Mercier<br \/>\nAmsat-F chairman<\/p>\n<p>AMSAT Bulletin Board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/amsat-bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amsat.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/amsat-bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vega Flight VV16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arianespace.com\/mission\/vega-flight-vv16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.arianespace.com\/mission\/vega-flight-vv16\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Vega VV16 launch live at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IveCBs-cCTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IveCBs-cCTw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/09\/01\/vega-vv16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Vega launch of three satellites with ham radio payloads<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Amsat UK&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vega VV16 launch Christophe Mercier reports three satellites with amateur radio payloads will be on the Vega VV16 launch expected to take place in the early hours of September 2.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665595","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\/665595","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665595\/revisions"}],"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=665595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}