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![]() Projects disclose status from multi-satellite launch ONE STOP SATELLITE SOLUTIONS RELEASE Posted: Feb. 2, 2000
FalconSat is designed to study how electrical charges build up on spacecraft in low earth orbits, is operating normally. Opal (Orbiting PicoSat Automated Launcher) carries and launches six very small satellites (about the size of a bar of soap or a deck of cards). The emphasis for this payload is on demonstrations of communications capabilities of very small satellites. Opal is operating normally. The Optical Calibration Sphere (OCS) is a Kapton/aluminum balloon used to calibrate an experimental telescope. OCS has reported normal operation. ASUSAT is designed and built by ASU students to be launched as a technology demonstrator for low-cost spacecraft. The satellite will be placed in a low-earth polar orbit to provide earth imagery, an audio transponder for amateur radio operations and a proof of concept for many new components. ASUSAT received some data in early orbits, but it appears that the satellite is not receiving appropriate power, as recent orbits have been quiet. The JAWSAT multi-payload adaptor is a joint venture of OSSS and weber State University (WSU). It served as the main structure of the payload group. It also serves as the platform for a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center experiment to help validate a new method of studying electrified gases in space, and the OSSS/WSU attitude controlled platform. To date, there have been four contacts with JAWSAT, the most encouraging being a partially complete message on January 31. Other contacts have been transmission of carrier signal only, with no discernable data. We are continuing to work with the satellite to determine if normal operations can be established.
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Flight data file Vehicle: OSPSLV-1 Payload: JAWSAT Launch date: Jan. 27, 2000 Launch window: 0303-0604 GMT (10:03 p.m.-1:04 a.m. EST on 26th) Launch site: CLF, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. ![]() Video vault ![]() PLAY (271k QuickTime file) ![]() ![]() PLAY (89k QuickTime file) ![]() ![]() |
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