On December 22 members of AMSAT-DL succeeded in receiving 18 images from the
5840 MHz high-speed downlink of the amateur radio satellite FITSat-1
In total 22 images were transmitted in the test and 18 were received at the amateur radio facility at Bochum.
The FITSAT-1 CubeSat was developed by students at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) in Japan. As well as the high-speed data downlink on 5840.0 MHz the satellite carries several amateur radio payloads: a CW beacon on 437.250 MHz, a telemetry beacon on 437.445 MHz and an optical Morse code LED experiment.
FITSAT-1, also known as NIWAKA, was one of five CubeSats launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 21. They were integrated with the J-SSOD small satellite deployer on the the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo and deployed by the Kibo robotic arm on October 4.
The 5840.0 MHz transmitter on FITSAT-1 runs about 2 watts output. It supports a data rate of 115.2 kbps and can send a JPEG 640x480 VGA picture in just 6 sec.
The images received at Bochum can be seen on the AMSAT Deutschland Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/amsat.deutschland
They are also on the site of Mineo Wakita JE9PEL
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fitsat58.htm#584
FITSAT-1
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml
A brief update on the Bochum facility can be seen in the Nov/Dec 2011 edition of the UK Microwave Group newsletter Scatterpoint
http://www.microwavers.org/scatterpoint/2011/Scatterpoint_1111.pdf
Control Software for the Amateur Radio Bochum Facility
http://amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/G3RUH/
In total 22 images were transmitted in the test and 18 were received at the amateur radio facility at Bochum.
The FITSAT-1 CubeSat was developed by students at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) in Japan. As well as the high-speed data downlink on 5840.0 MHz the satellite carries several amateur radio payloads: a CW beacon on 437.250 MHz, a telemetry beacon on 437.445 MHz and an optical Morse code LED experiment.
FITSAT-1, also known as NIWAKA, was one of five CubeSats launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 21. They were integrated with the J-SSOD small satellite deployer on the the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo and deployed by the Kibo robotic arm on October 4.
The 5840.0 MHz transmitter on FITSAT-1 runs about 2 watts output. It supports a data rate of 115.2 kbps and can send a JPEG 640x480 VGA picture in just 6 sec.
The images received at Bochum can be seen on the AMSAT Deutschland Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/amsat.deutschland
They are also on the site of Mineo Wakita JE9PEL
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fitsat58.htm#584
FITSAT-1
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml
A brief update on the Bochum facility can be seen in the Nov/Dec 2011 edition of the UK Microwave Group newsletter Scatterpoint
http://www.microwavers.org/scatterpoint/2011/Scatterpoint_1111.pdf
Control Software for the Amateur Radio Bochum Facility
http://amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/G3RUH/
(Source : Southgate Amateur Radio News)
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