[aprssig] FW: NASA Ames Phonesat Balloon Launch

[Joshua Shriver]

Congrats and good luck! :)

-Josh

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Bob Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
> Balloon is up!
> http://aprs.fi/KF7ODR-1
> But their main interest is their UHF packet downlink on 437.092
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> 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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