I was about to suggest the same.
It is usual that a decayed satellite come alive again after passing sunlight
(recharging).
NOAA 9 is a good examle. Most likely to hear NanoSail is on the Southern
Hemisphere
at the moment(?)
Patrik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandru Csete" <oz9...@gmail.com>
To: <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 21:28
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NanoSail-D turns out isn't lost!
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote:
Hi Alex /Marcus & All
I have exactly the same result as Alexandur (not only once)
I guess we used almost the same RCP antenna
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/
Yesterday nite NanoSail passed FI at zenith, I could not hear anything
from it (once the signal jumped but staid only for < 2 sec so I'm not
sure
what it was).
I thought, my system is erroneous? I cross checked against ECHO(AO-51)
today and it seems to work
http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/Jan-22-2011/
I retried on NanoSail this evning (68 deg max elev) using the new keps
published on the NASA page but nothing, nada.
Sumthing is fundamentally wrong how I/we do it. I guess it could be LHCP?
Perhaps someone (who speak English) could query NASA on howtos?
Patrik
Once they unfurled the sail, the S-band transmitter turned on, which has
been draining the batteries. Transmissions have been only
sporadic since then, I understand.
The radio fun might be over but there are still opportunities for
visual sightings (switch to THz frequency ;-)
The AL-coated solar sail is 6x larger than the reflective area of an
Iridium satellite so it may produce some nice flashes under the right
circumstances.
Alex
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