DeorbitSail

Dear AMSAT’ers, CubeSat’ers, Friends,

Please find attached exclusive details of a UK CubeSat called DeorbitSail flying out tomorrow evening on PSLV. Please feel free to distribute to other hams that can help out.

This contains all the info you should need including:

·         Initial TLE

      DEORBITSAIL
1 55554U 58056A   15191.72643157  .00000000  00000-0 +13828-4 0   335
2 55554  97.9842  81.0881 0007584 273.9578  86.0949 14.75593446209360

·         DeorbitSail Flyer > Launch details, etc.

·         Predicted first packet transmission on VHF > we predict to be over Russia in the evening.

·         Beacon & Packet Formats.

First packets sent in will get a Signed Certificate of thanks from the team!

If you have any telemetry or TLE/frequency information, please send it to me and/or to deorbitsail.messages@gmail.com so we can quickly learn our satellite state.

Any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

73 Chris

Dr Christopher P. Bridges, OBDH Group, Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. GU2 7XH. Email: c.p.bridges@surrey.ac.uk, Twitter: @DrChrisBridges Tel: +44 (0)1483 689137, Fax: +44 (0)1483 300803