QB50 CubeSats to deploy from ISS The first phase of QB50 CubeSats should be deployed from the International Space Station over three days May 16-18 Built by student groups from 23 countries around the world the QB50 constellation aims to study the lower thermosphere 200-380 km above the Earth. There are 28 QB50 CubeSats on the ISS awaiting deployment and it is understood that 11 will be deployed in this first phase. The beacons should be activated about 30 minutes after deployment. The QB50 CubeSats have downlinks between 435.8 and 438 MHz and reports from radio amateurs are most welcome. Beacon data received can be uploaded to a dedicated QB50 webpage at https://upload.qb50.eu/upload/ List of QB50 CubeSats with Beacon format and frequency information https://upload.qb50.eu/listCubeSat/ QB50 project https://www.qb50.eu/ https://twitter.com/QB50Mission On the deployment days radio amateurs and QB50 teams will be on the #CubeSat IRC channel at http://irc.lc/freenode/cubesat On June 19, 2014 two precursor QB50 CubeSats were launched, QB50p1 and QB50p2, which carried amateur radio transponders https://amsat-uk.org/2014/06/19/successful-launch-of-amateur-radio-satellite-payloads/ AMSAT-UK http://amsat-uk.org/ http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/may/qb50-cubesats-to-deploy-from-iss.htm
The more SATs the better ! I hope we will get a replacement for FO-29 ! she is getting a little old ! 73 see you on the birds KI6PMD ..
From my read of the posting and the further links these are not 2-way ham sats. They are scientific sats from universities that are downlink only and downlink their data inside a ham band. I am not too happy about that. As I recall there are bands set aside for this kind of telemetry that are not inside our spectrum.
here some infos about : https://upload.qb50.eu/listCubeSat/ 28 satellites cubesat launch from ISS , 8 satellites form a indian rocket launcher 73 de IW2BSF - Rudy
Are any of these 36 satellites, amateur satellite repeaters? Or are they just operating in the amateur satellite band?
oh, I didn't see that you were responding to another comment. Sorry. My questions were... Are any of these 36 satellites, amateur satellite repeaters? Or are they just operating in the amateur satellite band?
Hello. 1. https://upsat.gr <-The first open source satellite for Greece team: LSF by HackerSpace.gr 2. https://satnogs.org <-Satellite Networked Open Ground Station team: LSF by HackerSpace.gr 3. https://network-dev.satnogs.org <-Observation DownLink Frequency: 435.769 MHz, Encoding: FSK9k6, CW. Tracking 73 de SV1RVP Alexander
Are any of these 36 satellites, amateur satellite repeaters? Or are they just operating in the amateur satellite band?
There are a couple of transponders on the QB50 mission but don't expect them to be enabled until the primary missions are complete. Who knows? We may never see them active, but I'm thankful some of the builders decided to give us the accommodation. EO-79 and EO-80 were both QB50 Precursors with transponders. Unfortunately they both suffer from some power budget issues, but EO-79 remains functional.
