[W5SFA] Fw: [HAS] Shinen 2 Spacecraft - Amateur Radio Operators Needed

[Dan White]

Anyone?  Dan, W5AOV

-----Original Message----- 
From: Doug Holland
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 5:50 PM
To: JSCAS at mail.netslyder.net ; HAS at mail.netslyder.net
Subject: [HAS] Shinen 2 Spacecraft - Amateur Radio Operators Needed

Greetings JSCAS and HAS Members,
        Are you an Amateur Radio Operator or do you know someone who is? 
There is a unique opportunity for Amateur Radio Operators around the world 
to receive data from the Shinen 2 spacecraft and provide it to the project. 
The Shinen 2 spacecraft carries along with it the Space Radiation Payload 
which was developed as a university collaboration.  The Shinen 2 spacecraft 
launched two days ago, 12/2 as part of the Hayabusa 2 mission.

        The Shinen 2 is using an amateur radio transmitter to downlink the 
mission data.  The project is in need of additional ground stations around 
the Earth to provide coverage.  We hope to be receiving space radiation 
measurement data from the spacecraft for the next 3 to 5 years, but the 
signal is the most strong right now and for the next 8 days.

The link below is the launch video of the Shinen 2 spacecraft aboard a JAXA 
HIIA rocket from last Tuesday, 12/2.  Actual lift off is at 1:09:40 into the 
video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TwlwZobc4

Here is information about the downlink signal:

http://kit-okuyama-lab.com/en/

http://kit-okuyama-lab.com/en/sinen2/sinen2-radio-amateurs/

http://www.shin-en2.jp/index_E.html

And, an announcement in the December 4th ARRL Newsletter about this payload 
using amateur radio transmitters:

http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/?issue=2014-12-04

This project is a collaboration between: The Kyushu Institute of Technology, 
Prairie View A&M, UT Austin, University of Nevada, University of Alaska, and 
NASA / Johnson Space Center.

Please let us know if you are an Amateur Radio Operator and would like to 
participate in this important space mission.  Or, if you know others who are 
Amateur Radio Operators, feel free to pass this along to them.

Thank you,

Doug Holland



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