SSETI Express

[SirUlli]

so look here

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/sseti_express/SEMU287X9DE_0.html

7 September 2005
ESA PR 39-2005. SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA?s Education Department, is to be launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Russian Cosmos 3M launcher on 27 September in the morning.

and

13 September 2005
Radio amateurs worldwide are being asked to help collect data from the student-built SSETI Express satellite, due to be placed in orbit on 27 September. To encourage them, ESA?s Education department has organised two competitions and is supplying free downloadable software.
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i know that a few members here are radio amateurs, so

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMARJ7X9DE_index_0.html

Sir Ulli

 

[Assimilator1]

Ham is something I'm intrested in but I never progressed beyond CB SSB

 

[networkman]

I can *usually* tell the difference between a ham radio and a ham sandwich, especially important to avoid getting transistors stuck in your teeth.

 

[Assimilator1]

lol

 

[SirUlli]

19 September 2005
The launch of SSETI Express from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been delayed by 3 days, making 30 September the new tentative launch date.The launch time will remain the same at 06:52:26 UTC. Technicians for one of the spacecraft which will be travelling with SSETI Express onboard the Russian Kosmos 3M have asked for some extra launch campaign time.

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQYS7X9DE_index_0.html

and

http://sseti.gte.tuwien.ac.at/WSW4/


and

http://sseti.gte.tuwien.ac.at/express/mop/

Sir Ulli