September 2009
4 posts
16. August 2008
The recent events are dramatically. Our two ground stations are almost inoperable and thus our yet only way to interact with COMPASS-1 is through the tremendous support of DK3WN (http://www.dk3wn.info), who is generously helping us with the mission operations.
A few days ago however, a hard-reset of the satellite had occurred, which brought the satellite back into the following...
20. May 2008
The first two weeks after launch were an extremely busy time for us, as we needed to make the critical adjustments of the satellites threshold parameters in order to adapt it to the space environment. This acquisition phase is now officially finished and the mission operation will go into the testing phase, where we will download system and mission data through the Ax.25 packet...
28. April 2008
The launch was successful! All satellites have been deployed and confirmed!
COMPASS-1 has been heard! The beacon (437.275MHz) is now being analyzed.
Note: We are ‘sharing’ the frequency with the Cute 1.7 CubeSat. Therefore there are two beacons on that band.
We are busy to decode and interpret the beacon data. We are very thankful to hams around the world who are...
21. April 2008
The launch date is scheduled for April 28, 2008 03:53 UTC. Further details regarding the launch will follow soon.