Saudisat 1C --SO-50--

DEPNER Launch of December 20, 2002 més fotos aquí

Fa uns dias, s´ha possat en funcionament un nou satèl.lit, s´anomena Saudisat 1c i e penso que el nom oficial serà SO-50.

Trevalla amb FM i en mode J

Uplink: 145.850

Dowlink 436.800

L´unic probrema és que s´ha d´exitar amb un to de 67 hz i no amb els 1750 hz normals a Europa.

El métode per trevallarlo segons els USA , és igual que un UO-14 o AO-27 (jo encara no ho he provat).

Els keps es trova a:

http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt

Apareixen com a SAUDISAT 1C

Aqui teniu la carta on ho explica:

Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, and AMSAT-NA President is pleased to announce that
he has received the following E-mail from Saudi Arabia.

Dear Mr. Robin Haighton,

We are pleased to inform you that the Space Research Institute of KACST
has successfully launched its third spacecraft, SaudiSat-1C. The launch
and separation were accomplished flawlessly on December 20th, 2002, using
a modified SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.

SaudiSat-1C carries several experiments, including a new mode J FM
amateur repeater experiment operating on 145.850 MHz uplink and
436.800 MHz downlink. The repeater was activated and tested this past
week, and we are pleased to make it available to your members and
amateurs worldwide as power permits. The repeater is accessible using a
67.0 Hertz tone on the uplink, for on-demand activation.

The receive antenna is a single element quarter wave whip on top of the
spacecraft, feeding a VHF receiver with -124 dBm sensitivity, while the
UHF transmitter is coupled to a quarter wave antenna element on the
bottom of the spacecraft, radiating 250mW of RF energy.

We kindly request a new Saudi Oscar designator for our spacecraft.

73,
Turki Al Saud
Director, Space Research Institute.
KACST.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia