COMPASS 1 - Cubesat in Space
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Cubesat COMPASS-1 from the FH Aachen, launched at 28. April 2008
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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 link. A report on the past events can be downloaded.
The videos about the launch can be seen on Youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r0HiAJuOw_8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cn-Y0lcaCOoWe are still gathering as much beacon data as possible in order to judge the satellites’ health and plan the next steps. Therefore many thanks to all the hams who helped us so far:
KE5RDU (Jahshan, USA, Texas)
KG6TXT (Kyle, USA, California)
JR8YJT (Tatsuhiro, Japan)
BX1AD (Edward, Taiwan)
JO1XWH (Fujio, Japan)
JA6PL (Iji, Japan)
JH4DHX (Yoshi ,Japan)
JE2TLZ (Shigekazu, Japan)
JH3BUM (Masaji, Japan)
W0RPK (Ralph, USA, Indiana)
KE5FKU (Karla, USA, Texas)
DC1TJH (Tom, Germany)
DL8DR (Gerhard, Germany)
DK3WN (Mike, Germany)
PE1ITR (Rob, The Netherlands)
YO3KYD (Bucharest University, Romania)
9M6YBG (Go, Malaysia)
9W2QC (Sion, Malaysia)
CT2ISG (Fernando, Portugal)
CT1ETE (Paulo, Portugal)
JA1GDE (Toshio, Japan)
DL2KBJ (Wolfgang, Germany)
DO3AEJ (Alexander, Germany)
KF6RTB (Matthew, USA, California)
KD8CAO (Douglas, USA, Michigan)
JI1IZR (Masahiro, Japan)
JA0CAW (Tetsurou, Japan)
G0SFJ (Andy, U.K.)
PU9WIL (Wilmar, Brazil)
JE9PEL (Mineo, Japan)
ZL2BX (New Zealand)
W1ICW (Bob, USA, Vermont)
NH7WN (Robert, USA, Hawaii)
JE1HVH (Matsuda, Japan)
VU3TYG (Nitin, India)
DL7UZO (Tom, Germany)
Keep on going!!!If you heard the COMPASS-1 beacon - please send us a short note with the following items:
* Your name and callsign
* Your location (maidenhead gridsquare or latitude / longitude)
* Your home address for sending the QSL Card
* Time of Acquisition Of Signal (AOS) and Loss Of Signal (LOS) stated in UTC
* Signal strength
* Beacon Data
* Equipment (antenna, receiver, etc.)
vy 73 and 55! (sorry about those forgotten in the list)QSL
If you like to get a QSL-CARD please send two Cards via bureau or direct to the following address:
COMPASS ONE
c/o Thomas Hoevelmann
Hasencleverstr. 32
D-52222 Stolberg
GermanyThe callsign of COMPASS ONE is DP0COM.
