GENESIS Satellites may Launch Early October 2021

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GENESIS Satellites may Launch Early October 2021

After a year of waiting, finally this Friday 3rdSeptember 3, at 01:00 UTC the digital GENESIS satellites are expected to launch from Vanderberg AFB aboard Firefly's Alpha rocket in its maiden flight

These satellites are ASK (OOK) and CW repeaters. They transmit a lot of telemetry and also 19 different CW greeting messages in English and Spanish.

We would like to ask you all to please try to receive them as any information about their transmissions would be very valuable for us. These are the first satellites we build by ourselves and we need to learn everything we can of them. Waterfalls, audio USB receptions or IQ files would be very appreciated.

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Vanderbilt’s Silent CubeSat Awakens 6 months after Launch

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Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, or AMSAT, volunteers have established communications with RadFxSat-2, a small CubeSat that had been silent since it deployed in a Virgin Orbit launch 17th January 2021.

That day, the California-based company successfully deployed 10 CubeSats selected by NASA as part of the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. Nine of them were designed, built and tested by universities across the United States. The RadFxSat-2 CubeSat was built by AMSAT with the science payload built at Vanderbilt by electrical engineering graduate students Rebekah Austin and James Trippe. Austin is now with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Trippe is with Sandia National Laboratories.

“It’s alive after all. After six months of hard work, our AMSAT partners were able to establish communication with the satellite, which had been unresponsive since the launch.”
— Brian Sierawski, a research associate professor of electrical engineering and a member of Vanderbilt’s Institute for Space and Defense Electronics

RadFxSat-2 is a joint mission partnership between Vanderbilt University and AMSAT and the fourth miniature satellite launched in the partnership to test radiation effects on space electronics. This project was supported in part by the Arnold Engineering Development Complex, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Broadcom Corporation. The Vanderbilt-AMSAT missions run concurrently and provide experiment telemetry and amateur radio communications worldwide.

More Information - https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2021/vanderbilts-silent-cubesat-awakens-6-months-after-launch/

Hyderabad Hams Develop Low Cost Transverter for QO-100 Satellite

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Hyderabad Hams Develop Low Cost Transverter for QO-100 Satellite

Radio amateurs in Hyderabad have developed low-cost equipment to communicate via the geostationary satellite QO-100 amateur transponder

A group of Radio Amateurs in the city are literally making waves after they succeeded in indigenously designing and testing low-cost equipment that could help the Hams communicate via QO-100 geo-synchronous satellite.

In what is certain to be a game changer for the radio amateur community, five Hyderabad-based Ham operators have made prototypes of down and up converters for the QO-100 satellite. Use of this equipment, would enable any Ham operator in practicing satellite communication, which hitherto would have forced them to invest heavy amounts.

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