Just wanted to let everyone know that next week the Micro Trak 300 from
Byonics will be going to space on the KySat Space Express Mission.
KySat Space Express is a rapid turn around, suborbital access to space
experiment. The Space Express mission was designed to help test
subsystems and processes being developed for future orbital KySat
missions. A primary goal of the KySat Consortium is to facilitate
inexpensive and rapid access to space for small payloads. The Space
Express mission will launch from the White Sands Missile Range on a
Lunar Rocket and Rover Shadow 1B launch system.
Here is some brief information regarding the Space Express Mission:
Overview:
- Total of 4 mins mission time (roughly 2 mins up and 2 mins down)
- Expected 47 G's of acceleration at launch
- Rocket will burn for 2.1 seconds reaching roughly 1.5 km (5000 ft)
- Payload will separate from rocket at 2.1 seconds and coast to a final
altitude of roughly 140 km (90 mi) (KySat1 will orbit around 400-600 km
(250-375mi) )
- KySat Space Express Payload weighs less than 1 pound
Telemetry Gathered:
- 2 Temperature Sensors (one at nose cone end of the payload, other at
tail end of the payload)
- 2 Axis Acceleration (axis of thrust, and left and right if thrust is
vertical)
- Pressure Sensor (should see 0 psi in space)
- Mission Time
All Telemetry will be sent over amateur ham radio band (VHF: 144.39 MHz)
to ground station similar to what will be using for the "playground
station" for tracking KySat1.
The launch is scheduled for Wednesday Dec 5 1:30 pm.
You can learn more about KySat at the following link: www.kysat.com
You can learn more information about the Space Express mission at this
link: http://www.kysat.com/?165
If anyone has any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks
Tyler
KI4YLJ
Tyler J Doering
Graduate Research Assistant
Tyler.Doering@gmail.com
(859) 630-0470
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Kentucky
571 FP Anderson Tower
Lexington, KY 40506
