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Subj: OSCAR Echo to Fly in March!
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 299.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. October 26, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-299.01
AMSAT-North America has announced that launch of the AMSAT OSCAR-E
Amateur Radio microsat--the "Echo Project"-- is scheduled to launch
March 31, 2004. Earlier plans had called for a May 2004 launch. Echo
Project Team member Richard Hambly, W2GPS, reported at AMSAT-NA's Annual
Meeting and Space Symposium October 18-19 in Toronto, Canada, that the
Echo project has made significant progress in recent months.
A Russian Dnepr LV rocket--a converted SS-18 intercontinental ballistic
missile--will carry the approximately 10-inch-square satellite into a
low-Earth orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Echo Project Team member Richard Hambly, W2GPS, reported that the
project team powered up the Echo flight hardware in late summer in
a "flat-sat" configuration at SpaceQuest. Data communications, command
and control, and attitude control subsystems were tested, in addition
to the radio equipment, power systems and cabling.
The satellite will incorporate two UHF transmitters, each running
from 1 to 8 W and capable of simultaneous operation, four VHF receivers
and a multiband, multimode receiver capable of operation on the 10 meter,
2 meter, 70 cm and 23 cm bands. Echo will feature V/U, L/S and
HF/U operational configurations, with V/S, L/U and HF/S also possible.
FM voice and various digital modes--including PSK31 on a 10-meter SSB
uplink--also will be available.
[ANS thanks Dave Hassler, K7CCC, for the above information.]
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