{"id":38479,"date":"2014-04-19T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/?p=38479"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:10:53","slug":"successful-launch-of-kicksat-carrying-104-sprite-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/ham-radio-news\/successful-launch-of-kicksat-carrying-104-sprite-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful launch of KickSat carrying 104 Sprite satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zac Manchester, KD2BHC, of the KickSat project, reports the satellite launched successfully April 18 at 1925 UTC and successfully has attained low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at Cornell and several Amateur Radio operators around the world have made contact with the spacecraft, and it is alive and well,\u201d Manchester reported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"KickSat Sprite deployment\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_I7xvQgClMf0\"><div id=\"lyte_I7xvQgClMf0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/I7xvQgClMf0\/maxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">KickSat Sprite deployment<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I7xvQgClMf0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/I7xvQgClMf0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"KickSat Sprite deployment\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Cornell grad student has announced that he will offer prizes to the first several people who receive telemetry packets from KickSat as well as the first few who receive signals from the tiny Sprite satellites that KickSat will deploy in early May.<\/p>\n<p>After a launch delay, KickSat went into space with the third SpaceX ISS resupply mission. Next month the 3U KickSat CubeSat will release more than 100 Sprite satellites \u2014 each about the size of a small cracker \u2014 into orbit. They will become the smallest Earth-orbiting satellites ever.<\/p>\n<p>The KickSat beacon (437.505 MHz and 2401-2436.2 MHz) will transmit telemetry packets with information such as battery charge state, temperature, and Sprite deployment status. Packets will be transmitted every 30 seconds when the satellite is powered on, and every 250 seconds when it is in charging mode. All of the Sprites will be on the same frequency \u2014 437.240 MHz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/zacinaction\/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KickSat Update Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zac Manchester, KD2BHC, of the KickSat project, reports the satellite launched successfully April 18 at 1925 UTC and successfully has attained low-Earth orbit. \u201cWe at Cornell and several Amateur Radio operators around the world have made contact with the spacecraft, and it is alive and well,\u201d Manchester reported. KickSat Sprite deploymentWatch this video on YouTube&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38,190,194,195,203,234],"class_list":["post-38479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ham-radio-news","tag-amsat","tag-ham","tag-ham_radio","tag-ham-radio","tag-hamradio","tag-info","category-5","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}