[sat] Satellit mit LED - funktioniert!

[Patrick Strasser]

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Von AMSAT berichtet:

FITSAT-1 LED Beacon Seen From Space

A test of the FITSAT-1 LED optical beacon that took place on Decem-
ber 11 GMT over Japan was successful.

FITSAT-1 flashed the optical beacon over the USA on December 12 and
on December 13 over the British Isles and Europe. No reports of opti-
cal detection were received from the USA or Europe.

In a clear night sky with no moon the FITSAT-1 optical beacon is vis-
ible using binoculars.

The latest FITSAT-1 satellite news is posted at:
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml

A photo of the visible beacon is posted at:
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/images/121212_watanabe.jpg
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/images/121211_m.jpg

FITSAT-1 is a CubeSat developed by students at the Fukuoka Institute
of Technology (FIT) in Japan. As well as the optical LED experiment
the satellite carries an amateur radio payloads: a CW beacon on
437.250 MHz, a telemetry beacon on 437.445 MHz and a high-speed data
downlink on 5840.0 MHz.

[ANS thanks the FITSAT-1 team for the above information]
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Patrick Strasser <patrick at wirklich priv at>
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