Upcoming Sprite Launch on PSLV

[Zac Manchester]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to let you know that there will be some Sprites (a total of 6) flying on the upcoming Cartosat 2E mission that will launch on a PSLV, theoretically around June 25. It would be great to have as many of you as possible listen for these Sprites. If nothing else, it will give us a chance to debug before the KickSat-2 launch. I'll be posting updated information and code on GitHub here:

https://github.com/kicksat/groundstation/wiki

In the mean time, let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Zac

[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

I'm ready here in Massachusetts. 

Dave-KB1PVH


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[S marie Johnson]

Thank you for the exciting info Zac  

Shelley Manson 🚀

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[Janos Tolgyesi]

Are there any info about the expected orbit? Will it be similar than the previous PSLV mission: sun-synchron with 400-760 km?
t.janos

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[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Zac,

Is this the launch? 

June 22/23PSLV • Cartosat 2E

Launch time: 0359 GMT on 23rd (11:59 p.m. EDT on 22nd)
Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, flying on the PSLV-C38 mission, will launch India’s Cartosat 2E high-resolution Earth observation satellite and a collection of smaller secondary payloads from international customers. The PSLV will fly in the PSLV XL configuration with enlarged solid rocket boosters. Delayed from April 15 and May 25. [June 17]

Dave-KB1PVH


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On Jun 5, 2017 9:22 AM, "Zac Manchester" <kic...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Janos Tolgyesi]

Here is an updated manifest with a list of cubesats, travelling with the Cartosat-2E
http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/india-man.txt
t.janos

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[Janos Tolgyesi]

The indian PSLV raket started successfully. Congrats to the success!
In the 06:17 separated the main payload, the Cartosat 2E, at 06:26 UT separated the 31 other satellites.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/22/pslv-c38-mission-status-center/
We dont have info about the orbits of this objects, but it seems, they will fly on the same/very similar orbits in the first time.
Mike Ruprecht, DK3WN published some preliminary TLE-s to the QB50 sats, flying in this package:
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=80268

Maybe we can see he first telemetry receive reports on his satblog pages.
Are there any info about the Kicksat Sprites? Are there on orbit, or in another place?
t.janos

[Dave Webb KB1PVH]

Mike has posted some of the beacons he's received on Twitter https://twitter.com/dk3wn along with Jan https://twitter.com/pe0sat

I might post what I receive on my Twitter also. https://twitter.com/kb1pvh

Dave-KB1PVH

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[Janos Tolgyesi]

If I understand well the chips of informations, the Sprites owned by the "Max Valier" highschool,  Bozen (Bolzano) Italy, and flying on the board of this Max Valier sat. More info is here:
https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/max-valier-sat
Its own web page with some info for radio amateurs:
http://www.maxvaliersat.it/amateurradio
This Max Valier sat flying in the cloud of the new qb50 group, lifted by PSLV, 23 jun.
https://upload.qb50.eu/
On the dedicated web page arenot fresh news, the first receive report on satblog, here:
Mike,s receive report of Max Valier sat
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=80349
The actual tle, maybe here:
http://www.maxvaliersat.it/amateurradio

Zac made/refreshed a page on kicksat github here:
https://github.com/kicksat/groundstation/wiki/Radio-Info
But it is not clear, which Sprite PRN codes they use.
t.j.

[S marie Johnson]

Thank you for the great information

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[Janos Tolgyesi]

Based on this informations (Source: Ms. Cynthia Wilson, SSA Sharing Coordinator/CubeSat Liaison)
the Max Valier satellite id is: MAX VALIER SAT - 42769
and the temporaly name in the new-tle file is OBJECT E. The not the latest tle from this file is this:

OBJECT E
1 42769U 17036E   17176.18071896 +.00000463 +00000-0 +24985-4 0  9992
2 42769 097.4499 235.9184 0014577 229.4027 130.5940 15.19573812000233

In the last file the temporaly NORAD-ID name, and the tle is here:
2017-036E              
1 42769U 17036E   17177.23431922  .00000343  00000-0  19320-4 0  9993
2 42769  97.4498 236.9582 0014642 225.3678 134.6364 15.19574539   394
Download it from here:
https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt

From Mike satblog: http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=80446
t.janos

[Janos Tolgyesi]

 Zac Manchester‏ @zacinaction Jul 26 wrote:
We've finally gotten the #KickSat Sprite spacecraft working in space!
https://twitter.com/zacinaction
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reaching-for-the-stars-breakthrough-sends-smallest-ever-satellites-into-orbit/
t.janos

[T G]

Thanks for that t.janos.  I would so like to know if / when our mission to launch 100 sprites into low Earth orbit will happen.  Think Zac said there was a possibility next year?  Here's hoping! 😀

Cheers

Terry

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