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Subj: DNEPR LAUNCHES SAFIR-M
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From: W4DPH@W4DPH.#TPA.FL.USA.NOAM
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 356.02 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. DECEMBER 22, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-356.02
The german amateur radio satellite SAFIR-M was launched by a converted
Russian ballistic missile into orbit Friday, December 19, 2002, with a
cluster of five other satellites for a variety of organizations around the
world.
The Dnepr booster blasted out of its missile silo from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at approximately 1700 GMT (12:00 p.m. EST).
Initial reports indicate that the payloads achieved their intended orbits of
400 miles high with an inclination of 65 degrees.
SAFIR-M is a project of a group called Arbeitskreis Amateurfunk und
Telekommunikation in der Schule, or AATiS e.V. Its English transla-
tion means "Working Group for Amateur Radio and Telecommunications
in Schools."
SAFIR-M was developed in close cooperation with the University of
Applied Sciences in Pforzheim, Germany under the leadership of Henning
Rech DF9IC and his team. The main purpose of the satellite is to give
students easy access to space communications. It will have a downlink
at 145.825 MHz with AX.25, 9k6 packet as well as an optional voice mes-
sage beacon. The uplink is at 435.275 MHz (AX.25, 1k2), offering Mode B
operation. The callsign will be DP0AIS.
SAFIR-M is designed as a "store and broadcast" system for APRS
based messages, dedicated for the use of schools in combination
with the existing WX-Net and planned buoy experiments in Germany.
It extends German space educational activities to an European and
global base.
Details on SAFIR-M can be found on http://amend.gmxhome.de. Informa-
tion about AATiS e.V. is available under http://www.aatis.de. The
SAFIR-M homepage is still in German, but work is underway to add the
information in English.
[ANS thanks Oliver DG6BCE (DG6BCE@aatis.de) for the above information.]
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