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ARLS014 RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Launch Reset for November 18

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Space Bulletin 014  ARLS014
> From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  November 16, 2017
To all radio amateurs

SB SPACE ARL ARLS014
ARLS014 RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Launch Reset for November 18

The twice-delayed launch of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket
that will transport the AMSAT RadFxSat (Fox-1B) CubeSat carrying an Amateur
Radio payload and other payloads into orbit now is set for Saturday, November
18, at 0947 UTC. The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1 mission launch from
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, had to be postponed on November 14,
''due to a range safety hold and high upper-level winds,'' ULA said in a tweet.
The launch had to be put off on November 6 due to a faulty battery on the
booster. AMSAT will blog on the launch in real time on launch day at,
https://www.amsat.org/radfxsat-fox-1b-launch-live-blog/, and NASA-TV will cover
the event.

RadFxSat is one of four CubeSats making up this NASA Educational Launch of
Nanosatellites (ELaNa) XIV mission, riding as secondary payloads aboard the
JPSS-1 mission.

RadFxSat is a partnership with Vanderbilt University's Institute for Space and
Defense Electronics (ISDE) and hosts four payloads for the study of radiation
effects on commercial off-the-shelf components. It will carry a Fox-1 style FM
U/V repeater with an uplink on 435.250 MHz (67.0 Hz CTCSS) and a downlink on
145.960 MHz. Satellite and experiment telemetry will be downlinked via the DUV
subaudible telemetry stream, which can be decoded using FoxTelem software.

AMSAT will have more information on the launch and its early operations, and it
will post the first telemetry reception. More launch updates are available from
ULA via Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, with hashtags #DeltaII and #JPSS1.

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