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BID : ANS-222.05
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Subj: UO-14 Makes a Quick Recovery
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 222.xx From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 10, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-222.05
On 5 August 2003 UO-14 suddenly failed to make its scheduled appearance over
the Western Americas. Several stations confirmed that UO-14 was silent.
Unfortunately it would be several hours before UO-14's orbit carried it back
into range of the Command Station at Surrey. The following day Chris,
G7UPN, announced that, "UoSat-3 (UO-14) has been reset and is now operating
again." He reported that, "Good signals were received from it from the west
coast of the USA at Surrey."
As to what happened, Chris says, "Since the flight computer is not
operating, we have no way of knowing why this event occurred and can only
hope that it is not a sign of more problems
to come!"
UO-14 was launched in January 1990 so has been in orbit for over 13 1/2
years.
[ANS thanks Chris, G7UPN, for the above information]
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