A pair of satellites launched in May by the U.S. Naval Academy contains a PSK-31 transponder that
The BRICsat satellite. (US Naval Academy photo) |
The rocket that carried
PSAT and BRICsat into orbit also launched the Planetary Society's LightSail-1
satellite, which has a telemetry downlink in the 70-centimeter ham band (it's
transmitting 9600-baud FSK in AX.25 format on 437.435 MHz). The ARRL reported
that the LightSail transmitter briefly shut down due to a software glitch, but
managed to reset itself and come back on the air. Controllers were planning to
upload a software patch to prevent recurrence of the problem.