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ARLS007 New Satellites with Amateur Radio Payloads Launched, Monitored

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Space Bulletin 007  ARLS007
> From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  October 13, 2016
To all radio amateurs

SB SPACE ARL ARLS007
ARLS007 New Satellites with Amateur Radio Payloads Launched, Monitored

The AlSat-1N and Pratham satellites, both carrying Amateur Radio payloads, have
both been heard and identified following the India Space Research Organization
(ISRO) PSLV-C35 mission launch on September 26. Reports are requested. Reports
on AMSAT-BB indicate the Pratham CW beacon on 145.980 MHz is active.

The 3U AlSat-1N CubeSat was built in collaboration with the Algerian Space
Agency, the UK Space Agency (UKSA), Surrey Space Centre (SSC) staff, and
Algerian students as a technology transfer and demonstrator for Algeria.

AlSat-1N is also hosting three UK payloads from various institutions and aims
to take images of the Earth and send back data from the UK payloads. The IARU
coordinated downlink is 437.650 MHz (9,6 FSK). Downlinked data reports are
welcome, both decoded hex files and recordings.  They can be emailed to,
alsatnano@gmail.com .

The Pratham satellite, built by students at the Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay, also is a 3U CubeSat. It was designed to measure total
electron count at an 800 kilometer (approximately 500 mile) altitude
sun-synchronous orbit. The CW beacon (35 WPM) will transmit continuously at
145.980 MHz, and the Institute seeks post-launch reports. The satellite's 1200
bps FSK downlink is on 437.455 MHz. There is a Pratham project Facebook page
at, https://www.facebook.com/iitb.student.satellite/ .

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