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has there been an official launch date of the fox-1?
has there been an official launch date of the fox-1?
has there been an official launch date of the fox-1?
I read on amsat.org its going to be on oct 8th,cant wait hope to here you on de kb5zcs el15......
That satellite is going to be worked hard the first few weeks. I plan on being one of em
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Hope to work you Pat when we get a pass thats in between us 73s..........Hi!
Fox-1A was launched earlier this morning from Vandenberg AFB in California. It will be later in the day before it passes over North America, but hopefully stations in other parts of the world will hear something from it in the meantime. The 5.49am PDT/1249 UTC launch was broadcast on NASA TV, up until the point the payload fairing (the nose of the launch vehicle, where the satellites are stored) was jettisoned around 4 1/2 minutes into the launch.
AMSAT should issue some Keplerian elements later today, it is hoped. Then we can track it, hear its 145.980 MHz downlink, and wait for the FM transponder to be activated. AMSAT has released software to decode the telemetry on the downlink.
Good luck!
The Fox-1 is going to have a higher orbit than SO-51 so it should have a lot more coverage and better elevation.......