Unitec 1 countdown to Venus
Today 17.05.2010 Space Agency JAXA, will launch Planet C Orbiter AKATSUKI to Venus. In this mission along with AKATSUKI will travel the first amateur interplanetar probe Unitec 1.
Venus at my window
The goal of the mission is to perform tehnological experiments and testing long-range comunications.The satellite is a 35 cm cubest about 15 Kg carring a radio transmitter in 5,8 Ghz amateur band.
- Downlink- 5840 Mhz.
- Power- 4.8W/antenna
- Antenna- 2 microstrip patch antennas.
- Modulation- AFSK/FM in LEO mode near planet and CW during the flight.
Since february in Denmark Alexandru Csete- OZ9AEC build a 5.8 Ghz hardware and software system base on USRP for tracking the probe and collect data's from it using the big 7m dish antenna from OZ7SAT radioclub.
OZ7SAT big 7m dish antenna
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