From the WorldRadio Online Newsroom. . .
The ARRL reports that a Soyuz-U rocket carrying the AMSAT ARISSAT-1 satellite lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan January 27, heading for the International Space Station. The Progress M-09M cargo vehicle is also carrying fuel, oxygen, food and other supplies for the space station. It is scheduled to dock with the station on January 30 at 0240 UTC.
ARISSAT-1 is scheduled to be hand-launched during a spacewalk on February 16. It features a new software-defined transponder that will allow simultaneous FM, CW and BPSK transmissions on 2 meters, along with a traditional Mode U/V transponder (70 centimeters up, 2 meters down). The satellite has no propulsion system and will circle the Earth until its orbit decays and it burns up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere.
Click here for more information at the AMSAT-NA website.
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