NO-45

Satellite Roster

Note: Supplimental feature and frequency information was copied from each satellite's AMSAT info page.

AO-7 | AO-10 | UO-11 | RS-15 | AO-16 | LO-19 | FO-20 | UO-22 | IO-26 | AO-27 | PO-28 | FO-29 | GO-32 | AO-40 | NO-44 | NO-45 | SO-41 | SO-42 | MO-46 | SO-50 | AO-51 |

AMSAT Satellite Status | Recent Activity

Taken from AMSAT Weekly Satellite Report (April 11, 2004)

NO-45 Sapphire

• Catalog number: 26932
• Launch Date: September 30, 2001

• Uplink 145.945 MHz UI digipeater

The NO-45 digipeater remains on. User are requested NOT to use the Bulletin Board. When the Bulletin Board is used it effectively "locks out" ground access to the spacecraft CPU.

Everyone is welcome to use the digipeating/APRS features of Sapphire, callsign KE6QMD, as per the user service agreement located at http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat/contract.txt.

There will be occasional dropouts caused by the CW beacon, and users are advised to expect extra packet chatter during West Coast (USA) passes, as some schools are using Sapphire for operations training.

Student built Sapphire was launched through the U.S. Naval Academy Satellite program. Its primary missions are sensor experiments, a camera, and voice synthesizer. For more information, visit the Sapphire web site at http://students.cec.wustl.edu/~sapphire/sapphire_overview.html

[ANS thanks Mike, KE6YNJ for the above information][03212004]