Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NanoSail-D turns out isn't lost!

[Patrik Tast]

I was about to suggest the same.

It is usual that a decayed satellite come alive again after passing sunlight 
(recharging).

NOAA 9 is a good examle. Most likely to hear NanoSail is on the Southern 
Hemisphere
at the moment(?)

Patrik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandru Csete" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 21:28
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NanoSail-D turns out isn't lost!


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Alex /Marcus & All
> >
> > I have exactly the same result as Alexandur (not only once)
> > I guess we used almost the same RCP antenna
> > http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/
> >
> > Yesterday nite NanoSail passed FI at zenith, I could not hear anything
> > from it (once the signal jumped but staid only for < 2 sec so I'm not 
> > sure
> > what it was).
> > I thought, my system is erroneous? I cross checked against ECHO(AO-51)
> > today and it seems to work
> > http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/Jan-22-2011/
> > I retried on NanoSail this evning (68 deg max elev) using the new keps
> > published on the NASA page but nothing, nada.
> >
> > Sumthing is fundamentally wrong how I/we do it. I guess it could be LHCP?
> > Perhaps someone (who speak English) could query NASA on howtos?
> >
> > Patrik
> Once they unfurled the sail, the S-band transmitter turned on, which has
> been draining the batteries. Transmissions have been only
> sporadic since then, I understand.

The radio fun might be over but there are still opportunities for
visual sightings (switch to THz frequency ;-)
The AL-coated solar sail is 6x larger than the reflective area of an
Iridium satellite so it may produce some nice flashes under the right
circumstances.

Alex

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