Friday, February 13, 2009

Tracking PRISM, STAR and KKS-1 satellite



hi guys...this will be the 1st entry of the ATSB Ground Station...on the 5th Febuary 2009 me (shahril@burt), nuril and Malik try to contact satellite PRISM, STAR and KKS-1..

let me introduce you about this mission... on 12:54 p.m. on January 23, 2009, (Japan Standard Time, JST) japan has succefully launch the IBUKI satellite by using H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15...with the IBUKI satellite there is 7 other baby satellite such as KAGAYAKI, STARS, KKS-1, PRISM, SOHLA-1, SPRITE-SAT and SDS-1 for more detail please visit this link IBUKI

let So on 5th Febuary 2008 we had try to contact the STARS, KKS-1 and PRISM satellite with the 9W2MCS unfortunatelly we fail to record the sound of the satellites beacon. below is the frequency and the TLE of the satellites.


KKS-1

Call sign - JQ1YYY

Freq
437.385MHz CW

437.445MHz AFSK

TLE
1 33499U 09002H 09027.08712464 .00000396 00000-0 73093-4 0 130
2 33499 98.0311 138.7219 0011316 56.8569 303.3695 14.70656065 564


STARS

Call sign - JR5YBN (Mother)
Freq
437.305 CW

437.485 FM/AFSK


Call sign - JR5YBO (Daughter)
437.275 CW

437.465 FM/AFSK


TLE
1 33498U 09002G 09023.41301786 -.00000050 00000-0 00000+0 0 11
2 33498 098.0345 135.1171 0016472 044.9681 315.2857 14.72048578 28


PRISM
Call sign - JQ1YZW

437.250 CW
437.425 FM/AFSK

TLE
1 33493U 09002B 09023.47920182 .02469603 00000-0 28507+0 0 48
2 33493 098.0598 135.1735 0055448 332.9818 026.6286 14.80682294 57

By using Wxtrack software and we update the TLE of the
satellite we can know the time the satellite pass over
Malaysia on 5 Febuary 2009. On that day we tracking
PRISM on 13:11:25 (local time) till 1:17:10 duration
6 mins, STARS 13:30:33 till 13:38:50 duration 9 mins
and KKS-1 13:38:02 till 13:46:43 duration 9 mins

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