[bulletins] Fw: ARLS007 South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit

[Randy Allen - KA0AZS]

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>Subject: ARLS007 South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit
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>SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS007
>ARLS007 South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit
>
>ZCZC AS07  
>QST de W1AW  
>Space Bulletin 007  ARLS007
>From ARRL Headquarters  
>Newington, CT  September 18, 2009
>To all radio amateurs
>
>SB SPACE ARL ARLS007
>ARLS007 South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit
>
>After several delays, South Africa's SumbandilaSat satellite finally
>blasted to orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
>in Kazakhstan on September 16. The main payload is a multi-spectral
>imager, but the satellite also carries an Amateur Radio component
>consisting of a 2 meter/70 cm FM repeater.
>
>After SumbandilaSat is fully commissioned, the repeater will be
>activated with an uplink at 145.880 MHz and a downlink at 435.350
>MHz; there will also be a voice beacon at 435.300 MHz. The
>transponder mode will be controlled by a CTCSS tone on the uplink
>frequency. The CTCSS tone frequencies have yet to be announced.
>
>SumbandilaSat was sponsored by the Department of Science and
>Technology and was built at SunSpace in cooperation with the
>Stellenbosch University.
>
>In addition to the SA-AMSAT amateur module, the satellite carries
>Stellenbosch University's radiation experiment and software defined
>radio (SDR) project, an experiment from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
>University and a VLF radio module from the University of
>KwaZulu-Natal.
>NNNN
>/EX
>


Randy Allen, KA0AZS