[aprssig] FW: NASA Ames Phonesat Balloon Launch

[Bob Bruninga]

Balloon is up!
http://aprs.fi/KF7ODR-1
But their main interest is their UHF packet downlink on 437.092

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From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
Of Bob Bruninga
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 9:28 AM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Cc: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List'
Subject: [aprssig] FW: NASA Ames Phonesat Balloon Launch

APRS Balloon launch today from California Bay area!

> On Thursday 9 June we will be doing a high-altitude balloon
> launch of our prototype Phonesat spacecraft.... It will have
> a separate APRS VHF beacon, but what we're really interested
> is collecting the data from the satellite's UHF beacon.
> It would be great if people can ...send us back any data
> to to mikesafyan at gmail.com

PhoneSat Details:
- Frequency: 437.092MHz AX.25 AFSK
- PhoneSat Callsign(s): KJ6KKZ (primary), K5RDY (temporarily during a
reboot)
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/NASA_Phonesat, follow us for live updates!

Balloon/APRS Details:
- Launch Time: 10-10:30AM (PDT?) (follow twitter for updates)
- Launch Location: Valverde Park (outside of Manteca)
- APRS tracking: Callsign KF7ODR-1

Predicted Path:
http://habhub.org/predict/#!/uuid=e4826f7ae71c69c1abac515a20d8e821b20f78bf

Also, here is an article on their previous flight:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/11/cell-phones-space-smartphone-nasa/

73,
The PhoneSat team



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