• Chinese CAS-7B Satellite Carrying an FM Transponder to Launch

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Wed Jul 10 02:16:20 2019
    07/09/2019

    Another Amateur Radio satellite is set to launch from China. CAMSAT CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, reports that CAS-7B (BP-1B) is expected to launch on July 22 at 0500 UTC, on the Hyperbola 1 vehicle. CAS-7B is a spherical spacecraft, 500 millimeters (approximately 19.7 inches) in diameter with a mass of 3 kilograms (about 6.6 pounds). The CW telemetry beacon will be on 435.715 MHz. The V/U FM 16 kHz wide transponder downlink is 435.690 MHz, and the uplink is 145.900 MHz. The launch from Jiuquan will be into a 300-kilometer (approximately 186-mile), 42.7ø inclination orbit.

    ÿ

    ÿ

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Whiskey Lover's Amateur Radio BBS