Sputnik RS-17/2 A new version.
Did you know there was a Sputnk-2 on Mir? The RS-17/2 Mission is tentatively scheduled to fly around the end of the year (1998). The existing Mir satellite has the same functionality as the one which was flown last winter. However, it has been decided to perform an in space upgrade to the RS-17/2 satellite on Mir. The crew will replace the Battery and the control boards and install a new system with Voice Announcements. The new system will play pre recorded messages in French, Russian and English. I do not have any more details at this time.
The Amsat-France Sputnik RS-17-2 also called Spoutnik-41 arrived on the Russian Space Station Mir at 1.11.98. See arcticle for more Infos.
Here you find the time schedule of the transmissions of SP2 and many more...
Sputnik 41, called RS-18, manualy launched from spacestation MIR.
You can hear a short summary of the transmission of the little satellit. The silence between the 9 different audio images is cut out.
Sputnik was heard on 11.11.98 at 0615UTC (0715 MEZ) in Erlangen, 10km north of Nürnberg, QTH-Locator JN59MN. For receiving equipment, see description of MIR reveiver.
The original long transmission is 135 seconds long. and packed with pkzip.
Or, if you prefer, you could get it not packed (1,5MB).
To get a QSl-Card for receiving the signals you have to send a SASE (self adressed and stemped enevelope) with your receiving information to:
AMSAT France
QSL SPOUTNIK 41
14 bis rue des Gourlis
F-92500 RUEIL-MALMAISON
France.
(Info frome Bernard, f6bvp)This is the front side ode the RS18-QSL card and this the rear.
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For more information about this project, please check out the Amsat-France Web page.
http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/physio/Satedu/spoutnik41.html
