{"id":6645,"date":"2011-01-22T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/nasa-nano-sail-found-by-hams\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T23:48:00","slug":"nasa-nano-sail-found-by-hams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/nasa-nano-sail-found-by-hams\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA NANO-Sail Found by Hams!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1vZfm500hE?rel=0&#038;hd=1\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"325\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">All is well with the Nano-sail spacecraft, and hams apparently helped find it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is tremendous news and the first time NASA has deployed a solar sail in low-Earth orbit,\u201d said Dean Alhorn, NanoSail-D principal investigator. \u201cTo get to this point is an incredible accomplishment for our small team and I can\u2019t thank the amateur ham operator community enough for their help in tracking NanoSail-D. Their assistance was invaluable. In particular, the Marshall Amateur Radio Club was the very first to hear the radio beacon. It was exciting!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Marshall Amateur Radio Club confirmed deployment of NanoSail-D late Wednesay EST with reception of the 1200bps AX.25 FM beacon on 437.275MHz +\/-10kHz Doppler.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">News Release: 19 January 2011 Huntsville, AL USA<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Marshall Amateur Radio Club (@ MSFC) &#8211; WA4NZD late Wednesday afternoon confirmed ejection of the NanoSail-D sub-satellite. This loaf-of-bread sized spacecraft was carried to orbit late last year on an Air Force rocket as part of NASA&#8217;s FastSat project. This is the first successful deployment of a satellite, launched from a satellite already in orbit .!. The only communication from the NanoSail-D vehicle is via ham radio with 1200 baud FM AX25 beacon packets.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The WA4NZD team of N4PMF and WB5RMG, was listening on 437.275 MHz FM with the NanoSail-D Principal Investigator Dean Alhorn at the club station when the beacon was heard and susbequently decoded onto the screen.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Please visit http:\/\/wa4nzd.wordpress.com\/ for pictures and more links to the NanoSail-D project. They are asking for telemetry reception reports from all over the world to help fill in gaps. The battery is expected to last for only three days.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marshall Amateur Radio Club<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">http:\/\/wa4nzd.wordpress.com\/<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NanoSail-D Dashboard<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">http:\/\/nanosaild.engr.scu.edu\/dashboard.htm<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NanoSail-D on Twitter<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/NanoSailD<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All is well with the Nano-sail spacecraft, and hams apparently helped find it: \u201cThis is tremendous news and the first time NASA has deployed a solar sail in low-Earth orbit,\u201d said Dean Alhorn, NanoSail-D principal investigator. \u201cTo get to this point is an incredible accomplishment for our small team and I can\u2019t thank the amateur &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/nasa-nano-sail-found-by-hams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NASA NANO-Sail Found by Hams!&#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":[82,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}