{"id":4089,"date":"2009-08-18T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/pico-sats-texas-dubai-balloons\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:34:04","slug":"pico-sats-texas-dubai-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/pico-sats-texas-dubai-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pico-Sats, Texas, Dubai, Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj5qKEQgmEoi5NgGq8TrENi1rNW5URcioWOGamg1jH5vYRzmZLk4wNXnNe-Pb1X6lrv7h4iBPDhJO72vkoDho7muzujCPZazKvgFCh5wqzclFJ72bWHb9MIe4ojn-vyieaBDUVeSPpVt7I\/s1600-h\/90731dra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 239px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/90731dra.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374123512953431874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiZ-OVXXirVlT0X8o01ab_MtqDMfnWzNaMhvQ2qs4t7-Yqa0Sq-6QmnjjHvWrD5uvU3lomO_UP1ymOTMbV4vpD4naQnFoUVn7wb7urQ8eibiI7AbUNe82BZ1bR01dmmIB3MfegfkZ8teU4\/s1600-h\/90731drb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 239px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/90731drb.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374123243973663362\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Our man in Dubai, Ron Sparks, AG5RS, sent in this very interesting report on the very small satellites. Obviously lots of QRP relevance here:<\/p>\n<p>Hi Bill,<\/p>\n<p>I am attaching some news you may find interesting. If you remember last year I did an echolink => IRLP => 2m linkup to make QSLs on the Balloon Launch (BLT-24). Besides the usual repeater and video gear, we also had an interesting &#8220;hitchhiker&#8221; on the payload.<\/p>\n<p>It was the functional engineering model of the BEVO-1 picosat. You can see pictures of the model and the balloon payload here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w5acm.net\/b24.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.w5acm.net\/b24.html<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w5acm.net\/b24.html\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>This unit sent beacon information during the balloon launch and we tested it environmentally by doing so. Data on the sat itself is at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/news\/2009\/06\/09\/picosatellite\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/news\/<wbr>2009\/06\/09\/picosatellite\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sister satellite was being prepared by my alma mater, Texas A&#038;M, who then docked their sat with the UT sat and put them on the Shuttle mission STS-127. Photos are here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/hamradio\/je9pel\/dragonst.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/<wbr>hamradio\/je9pel\/dragonst.htm<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/hamradio\/je9pel\/dragonst.htm\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>All of this is part of NASAs DRAGONsat program. This is a new GPS system being developed by NASA.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the satellite stuff is a little &#8220;far afield&#8221; for Soldersmoke, but you might find the connection to the Houston balloon community interesting. Those of us who get together and annually launch the balloon are without question Soldersmoke-ers with chronic cases of &#8220;the knack&#8221;. It is fun for me to see that actually be useful toward a next generation replacement for GPS satellites.<\/p>\n<p>All the best.<br \/>73 from Dubai, <span class=\"il\">Ron<\/span> AG5RS and A65BQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our man in Dubai, Ron Sparks, AG5RS, sent in this very interesting report on the very small satellites. Obviously lots of QRP relevance here: Hi Bill, I am attaching some news you may find interesting. If you remember last year I did an echolink => IRLP => 2m linkup to make QSLs on the Balloon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/pico-sats-texas-dubai-balloons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pico-Sats, Texas, Dubai, Balloons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,333,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balloon","category-dubai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}