New Satellites

CAMSAT XW-4 (CAS-10) Satellite To Be Deployed December 18th

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The CAMSAT XW-4 (CAS-10) satellite was launched into the Chinese Space Station on November 12, 2022 aboard China’s Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft, and was launched by the Long March-7 Y6 launch vehicle from the Wenchang Launch Center in Hainan, China. It is currently planned that the XW-4 (CAS-10) satellite will be separated from the Chinese space station and enter operational orbit at 01:30 UTC on December 18, 2022.

Initial post-deployment TLEs :

XW-4 (CAS-10)
1 48274U 21035A   22349.57666509  .00020514  00000+0  25201-3 0  9994
2 48274  41.4739 194.5783 0004074 111.0935 347.0781 15.59787538 93120
CAMSAT-XW-4-CAS-10-Amateur-Radio-Satellite-Users-Manual-V1.0

 

XW-4 (CAS-10)

Tevel Mission to Launch on SpaceX Transporter-3 Mission January 13th

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The Tevel mission consisting of 8 satellites developed by the Herzliya Science Center in Israel, each carrying an FM transponder, is expected to launch on January 13 at 15:25 GMT on the SpaceX Falcon-9 Transporter-3 mission. This mission also carries AMSAT-EA’s EASAT-2 and HADES satellites.

Tevel-1, Tevel-2 ….Tevel-8

Beacon transmissions on 436.400 MHz, (9600bps BPSK G3RUH)
FM transponders uplink frequency: 145.970 MHz|
FM transponders downlink frequency: 436.400 MHz

All 8 satellites will have the same frequencies, so as long as the footprints are overlapping, only one FM transponder will be activated. The satellites were built by 8 schools in different parts of Israel.

Prelaunch TLEs:

Deployment number 28

TEVEL-4/TEVEL-5
1 12345U 22-T3TE  22013.69008102 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0  9997
2 12345  97.3652  83.6317 0010843 246.0911 147.6817 15.12493461    06

Deployment number 30

TEVEL-1/TEVEL-2/TEVEL-3
1 12345U 22-T3TE  22013.69038194 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0  9991
2 12345  97.3658  83.6317 0009074 254.1211 141.2940 15.11975594    07

Deployment number 55

TEVEL-6/TEVEL-7/TEVEL-8
1 12345U 22-T3TE  22013.69375000 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0  9991
2 12345  97.3676  83.6318 0009046 252.0606 161.7026 15.11914367    05

Control station will be 4X4HSC at the Herzliya Science Center.

[ANS thanks David Greenberg, 4X1DG, for the above information]

CAMSAT’s XW-3 (CAS-9) to Launch at 03:11 UTC on December 26th

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The CAMSAT XW-3 (CAS-9) amateur radio satellite will be launched at UTC 03:11:31 on 2021-12-26, and will be deployed at 98.858° east longitude and 28.413° north latitude at UTC 03:35:58, location close to Western Australia.

XW-3 (CAS-9) satellite (image courtesy CAMSAT)

Radio amateurs will receive CW beacon and GMSK telemetry signals approximately 38 seconds after the satellite is separated from the launch vehicle, and then the linear transponder will be put into use after approximately 49 seconds.

Preliminary TLEs are:

XW-3(CAS-9)
1 99999U          21360.14997609  .00000032  00000-0  10363-4 0 00007
2 99999 098.5836 072.3686 0004232 307.2415 261.3002 14.38559758000156

The timeline of launch events and user’s manual follow:

XW-3_Amateur_Radio_Satellite_Launch_Time_Sequence

Click here to download

XW-3_Amateur_Radio_Satellite_Users_Manual_V1.0

Click here to download

[AMSAT thanks Alan Kung, BA1DU, CAMSAT, for the above information]

Launch Window for AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E Opens December 19th

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Virgin Orbit has announced that the launch window for their LauncherOne Launch Demo 2 mission opens on December 19th. This launch will carry AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E to orbit.

RadFxSat-2, like RadFxSat / Fox-1B, now AMSAT-OSCAR 91, is a partnership opportunity between Vanderbilt University and AMSAT and will carry a similar radiation effects experiment, studying new FinFET technology.

RadFxSat-2 is the fifth and final Fox-1 satellite built by AMSAT. The RadFxSat-2 spacecraft bus is built on the Fox-1 series but features a linear transponder “upgrade” to replace the standard FM transponder in Fox-1A through D. In addition, the uplink and downlink bands are reversed from the previous Fox satellites in a Mode V/u (J) configuration using a 2 meter uplink and 70 cm downlink. The downlink features a 1200 bps BPSK telemetry channel to carry the Vanderbilt science data in addition to a 30 kHz wide transponder for amateur radio use. Telemetry and experiment data can be decoded using FoxTelem version 1.09 or later. FoxTelem is available at https://www.amsat.org/foxtelem-software-for-windows-mac-linux/.

Participation in telemetry collection by as many stations in as many parts of the world as possible is essential as AMSAT Engineering looks for successful startup and indications of the general health and function of the satellite as it begins to acclimate to space. AMSAT will send a commemorative 3D printed QSL card to the first station capturing telemetry from RadFxSat-2.

 

RadFxSat-2 (Fox-1E) – Launch Window Opens December 19th
Uplink LSB 145.860 MHz through 145.890 MHz
Downlink USB 435.760 MHz through 435.790 MHz
Launches on ELaNa XX – Virgin Orbit LauncherOne Launch Demo 2. 1.2kbps BPSK telemetry 435.750 MHz