NASA's first Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) is now set to launch in early March, 2011. Aboard the launch vehicle are three CubeSats from US Universities.
If you would like to help the three universities track their spacecraft, please forward the collected data to the locations on the bottom of the page. The relevant tracking information is listed below. Check this page for updates. Also, don't forget to hop on the CubeSat IRC channel to collaborate with the other operators.
For live updates of the ELaNa launch schedule, please visit http://spaceflightnow.com/taurus/glory/status.html
University of Colorado at Boulder:
Satellite name: Hermes
Downlink Freq: 437.425 MHz
Modulation Scheme: AFSK/FM
Baud Rate: 1200
Beacon type and period: AX.25 packet every 5 seconds
University of Kentucky:
Satellite name: KySat-1
Downlink Freq: 436.790 MHz
Modulation Scheme: CW - AFSK/FM
Baud Rate: 32 wpm - 1200
Beacon type and period: Morse code every 5 min - AX.25 packet every 2.5 min
Montana State University:
Satellite name: Explorer-1[PRIME]
Downlink Freq: 437.505 MHz
Modulation Scheme: Non-Coherent FSK/LSB
Baud Rate: 1200
Beacon type and period: AX.25 packet every 15 seconds
Data Forwarding Info:
Colorado -
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(Subject: "Hermes Pass Data")
Kentucky -
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(Subject: "KySat Pass Data")
Montana - http://www.ssel.montana.edu/e1p (click on the Data Submission Tab)
University Websites:
Colorado - http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/hermes
Kentucky - http://ssl.engineering.uky.edu/kysat1/
Montana - http://www.ssel.montana.edu/e1p
Preliminary TLE's: (updated for March 4th launch)
1 99999U 00000 11063.43259919 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0000
2 99999 97.9564 8.4412 0007658 67.0214 113.6793 14.77265551000000
