dna@dsd.UUCP (03/02/84)
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 10:15 AM PST Msg: PGIE-1729-6275
From: MSWEETING
To: AMSAT
Subj: UOB Launch
So far, so good!
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 11:53 AM PST Msg: OGIE-1729-7474
From: LKAYSER
To: amsat
Subj: UOSAT2 deployed
I just received a call from HPrice in WTR that UOSAT2 deployed
a few minutes ago...now OSCAR11
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 12:15 PM PST Msg: PGIE-1729-7735
From: PKARN
To: amsat
Subj: UO-11 Elements
The following is an element set derived from first-orbit radar tracking
in Turkey. As usual, this is courtesy of our friends at Millsone Hill.
A comparison of these numbers agains the pre-launch z//K+1set explains
why G3IOR had late LOS.
Phil
Satellite: oscar-11
Catalog number: 0
Epoch time: 84061.80270600
Thu Mar 1 19:15:53.798 1984 UTC
Element set: MH
Inclination: 98.2466 deg
RA of node: 124.2419 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0008400
Arg of 0_igee: 222.2234 deg
Mean anomaly: 197.7258 deg
Mean motion: 14.62579250 rev/day
Decay rate: 0 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 0
Semi major axis: 7060.074 km
Anom period: 98.456203 min
Apogee: 697.319 km
Perigee: 685.458 km
Beacon: 145.8250 mhz
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 12:24 PM PST Msg: OGIE-1729-7854
From: LKAYSER
To: AMSAT
Subj: AO11
PRNTET.BR
13:35 CST (UoSat Oscar 11 separation + 25 minutes)
I just received a phone call from Harold, who had just phoned
Surrey. He reports:
ALL ABOARD OSCAR 11 IS NOMINAL. Immediately following separation, the
two meter beacon was commanded on for a single block of telemetry. All
telemetry appears nominal. The beacon was again turned on for a
five minute interval. That was all that could be accomplished before
LOS at Surrey. The current plan is for Surrey to turn on the beacon
continuously next pass.
Congratulations to all. It looks like a real healthy bird.
(Landsat-D prime is healty too.)
Bill Reed WD0ETZ
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 12:41 PM PST Msg: SGIE-1729-8078
From: TCLARK
To: amsat
Subj: UoSAT-OSCAR-11 in orbit
The UoSAT-B spacecraft riding as a piggyback with the Landsat-D Prime
satellite was successfully orbited today (March 1,1984) from
Spacecraft Launch Complex 2W (SLC-2W) at Vandenberg AFB. Launch was
aboard a Delta 3920 vehicle, the 174th member of the highly successful
Delta series. This marked Delta's 163 success -- an enviable 93.7%
track record. NASA is now phasing out the expendable Delta series and
replacing it with the reusable Shuttle.
Liftoff went like clockwork, within one second of the nominal 19:59
UT. Following the deployment of Landsat, the UoSAT spacecraft
separated from the second stage of the launcher at about 21:11 UT. The
telecommand station at the University of Surrey sent commands to
initialize the spacecraft software and activate the 145.825 MHz beacon
for a few seconds. The few seconds of telemetery showed that the
spacecraft was in good health, so an additional command was sent to
acquire about 5 minutes of data. We are informed that on the second
orbit, at about 22:30 UT, the spacecraft will be commanded on for a 5
hour period. Thus the first passes visible in the US will be on March
2 at about 00:05 UT on the east coast, at about 01:40 UT for the
eastern half of the US and about 03:20 on the west coast.
The spacecraft is in a nominal orbit with inclination 98 degrees,
period 98.6 minutes and altitude 690 km. Improved orbital data should
be available later today after the radars can separate UoSAT from
Landsat and the launcher. The international designator for UoSAT-
OSCAR-11 is 1984 021B; the NASA/NORAD catalog number will be know when
we get the first Keplerian elements.
I talked with Dr. Martin Sweeting, G3YJO (the Surrey project manager)
as the first signals were being received at Surrey and heard them over
the phone. Martin was elated at the success and I conveyed our
congratulations on his success for all of AMSAT. AMSAT is proud to
have played a small role in making this newest amateur satellite come
to life.
The ALINS broadcasts were carried on 14.280, 21.280, & 147.45 MHz from
WA3NAN. Good reports were received from Europe on 15. After it was
determined that 20 was not doing very well, that transmitter QSY'd to
7.180. W3IWI played the role of "mouth of AMSAT" and KA1TB manned the
WA3NAN facility. Also present in the control center at Goddard were
Bill Lazzaro and Dick Daniels of AMSAT and Gary Garriott of VITA.
73, Tom
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 3:52 PM PST Msg: DGIE-1730-1671
From: MNAKAYAMA
To: msweeting
CC: amsat
Subj: UO-11 : 1st. AOS in JA
Martin,
*** CONGRATULATIONS UPON SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF UoSAT-OSCAR-11 ***
Quite a few JAMSAT boys (including JR1SWB) received 2m beacon
nicely on #3, around 2250 UTC.
Since I could not get a good frame because of QRM, I called up
JH7CKF and got following frame. It was received around 2253 UTC.
(Sorry for possible typo, in advance!)
UOSAT-2 0000410034213
00312001629C02570003562204047705035306020407044708034F090292
105026113223120003130882140005150026160007175232185279195296
20519F21187D226622230001240006250007260985275257284860294834
30475531041732284F335984340007353656364364373986384528394592
40749E41000542668E43000744175345003246000247453148462C494382
50486F51092F52673553678F54817F55000056000357446458452E59457A
60826A615BC562800C63024364040665010266A00A67000168000269000F
If you'd like to get more frames, don't hesitate to tell me so
via this media. I'll ring JH7CKF again to ask for more data.
73's Miki
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 4:15 PM PST Msg: TGIE-1730-1807
From: PKARN
To: amsat
Subj: Nothing heard
Nothing heard from UO-11 on the first pass at KA9Q on either 145.825 or
435.025.
Phil
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 4:19 PM PST Msg: IGIE-1730-1836
From: MSWEETING
To: AMSAT
Subj: ** OSCAR-11 / UOSAT-2 LAUNCHED & OPERATIONAL **
Thanks to all who have helped in any way towards the
successful launch of the OSCAR-11 spacecraft. Detailed
bulletins o on t/m and UOSAT-1.
Martin Sweeting UOSAT Program Manager
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 4:20 PM PST Msg: CGIE-1730-1850
From: MSWEETING
To: AMSAT
Subj: Oscar-11
Hi, There!
Oscar-11 has been successfully commanded on during the first
three passes over Surrey this evening. All the first
indications are that the spacecraft is in very good shape and
that the initial checkout will proceed faster than expected.
On the first pass over Guildford (during which,
coincidentally, Oscar-11 was ejected from the launcher) all
the primary systems were powered up (receivers, battery charge
by separation switches, telemetry, computer, navigation
magnetometer by telecommand). The computer was then
bootstrapped and generated about 10 seconds of telemetry.
During the rest of the pass, another 2 bursts of telemetry of
about 4 minutes duration were generated by command through the
computer loader.
On the second orbit, a short and long burst of telemetry were
again generated. During the second burst, a beacon multiplex
command was issued on the 144MHz uplink and this was correctly
received - full duplex 144/145 MHz operation! The second half
was occupied loading a short 1802 program which transmitted
for 80 minutes, the beacon multiplexers again being set to
telemetry.
The third and last pass at Surrey for this evening was spent
loading a similar program to the last one which will transmit
for 10 hours, i.e. until just before AOS at Surrey tomorrow
morning. All temperatures on Oscar-11 are still settling and
reports throughout the night on Telemail would be welcome.
Activities tomorrow include the testing of various other 1802
computer I/O ports before running other programs to record
whole-orbit telemetry and other housekeeping functions as
battery charge and temperatures dictate.
We would welcome reports, both telemetry and AOS/LOS times,
and will issue a further bulletin via Telemail and Oscar-9
later tomorrow.
Roger Peel G8NEF & UoSAT Team University of Surrey.
P.S. Jim Miller, G3RUH, and Phil Howarth, G3YAC, report that
the original orbital predictions are very accurate. Their
only refinement after doppler measurement of the initial 3
incomplete passes indicates that the time of equator crossing
should have 8 seconds added. More measurement tomorrow.
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 5:42 PM PST Msg: NGIE-1730-2221
From: LKAYSER
To: AMSAT
Subj: 0140 PASS UOSAT2
IF ANYONE IS HEARING THIS PASS NOW PSE
REPLY QUICK, WE HAVE A TELEVISION CREW
SITTING HERE!!!
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 6:17 PM PST Msg: IGIE-1730-2316
From: PKARN
To: amsat
Subj: Nothing heard
I've listened to the first two east-coast USA passes and have heard
nothinW O"*r*z435.025. Rip joined me for the second pass and
heard nothing either.
Phil
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 6:23 PM PST Msg: RGIE-1730-2345
From: PKARN
To: amsat
Subj: Ahem..nothing heard
Sorry for the line hit in the previous message - it may LOOK like a
deleted expletive, and I might feel like using one right now, but that
wasn't what I sent!
What I meant to say is that Rip and I have heard nothing on either the
2m or 70cm beacon.
Phil
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 7:28 PM PST Msg: OGIE-1730-2562
From: PKARN
To: amsat
Subj: Nothin' heard #3
Nothing heard on pass #3 at KA9Q.
Phil
Posted: Thu Mar 1, 1984 7:52 PM PST Msg: DGIE-1730-2631
From: HPRICE
To: AMSAT
Subj: Post launch report
Colin and I are back in LA after an eventfull trip to WTR today.
Video tapes of the launch came out well. Ian got good coverage from
about 6 seconds away, I got some stuff from 26 seconds away (sound seconds),
the two go together nicely. After launch we went to the UOSAT lab at south
Vandenberg to listen in on the NASA links. There were several requests
for info about UOSAT seperation and health, since uosat seperation came
out of sight of NASA, no one knew the status. Interest was high, it
was obvious that everyone wanted 100% out of this flight. Colin rang up
Surrey and got the good news. I pushed some buttons on the console, came
up on the link that had last asked for uosat info and said "UOSAT WTR,
Surrey ground station reports seperation and good telemetry on UOSAT-2", or
some such offical sounding words. To my surprise, the info was almost
instantly relayed to another NASA feed by someone, and was announced over
the PA system by someone else. Just another indication that everyone viewed
UOSAT-2 as an important part of the overall project. We were treated well
by all involved.
The beacons were not heard here at the 03:20 Mar 2 pass. We are assuming that
the 10 hour beacon program did not get loaded and that Surrey went to bed
before updating TM. We will call them again at midnite local time here to
get some new status.
I have close to two hours of raw VHS footage, s/c final prep, premate, mate,
and launch. I plan to edit it down to 15 min or so at a local facility
here to use for VITA PR. Some of you may want a copy of the whole thing.
Anyone have any suggestions about how to best do it? $25 ought to cover
the cost of a tape and the duping fee, I'll get it done at a place down
the street that dubs though high grade 1/2" editting equipment. I'm open
to other suggestions. Larry, did you capture the news tonite on tape?
Have you heard from CBC about getting copies of their stuff?
Lets hope for beacons tomorrow.
Harold.