{"id":38356,"date":"2019-07-01T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38356"},"modified":"2019-06-29T06:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T10:47:26","slug":"lightsail-2-to-transmit-morse-code-id-on-437-025-mhz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/lightsail-2-to-transmit-morse-code-id-on-437-025-mhz\/","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 to transmit Morse Code ID on 437.025 MHz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a> and ARRL)<\/p>\n

The Planetary Society’s\u00a0LightSail 2<\/strong>\u00a0CubeSat, launched on June 25, will transmit Morse code from space.<\/p>\n

LightSail is a citizen-funded project to send a small spacecraft, propelled solely by sunlight, into Earth’s orbit. The innovative satellite is due to be deployed on July 2 from Prox-1, a Georgia Tech student-built spacecraft the size of a small washing machine.<\/p>\n

Once deployed, LightSail 2 will automatically transmit a beacon packet every few seconds, which can be decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry describing the spacecraft’s health and status, including everything from battery status to solar sail deployment motor state. Every 45 seconds, the spacecraft will transmit “LS2” on the spacecraft’s frequency of 437.025 MHz, within the Amateur Radio 70-centimeter band.<\/p>\n

Further details can be found online at,
\nhttp:\/\/www.planetary.org\/explore\/projects\/lightsail-solar-sailing\/<\/a> .[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at the Southgate ARC.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate ARC and ARRL) The Planetary Society’s\u00a0LightSail 2\u00a0CubeSat, launched on June 25, will transmit Morse code from space. LightSail is a citizen-funded project to send a small spacecraft, propelled solely by sunlight, into Earth’s orbit. The innovative satellite is due to be deployed on July 2 from Prox-1, a Georgia Tech student-built spacecraft the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[5952,7869,7371],"class_list":["post-38356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cubesats","tag-lightsail-2","tag-planetary-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9YE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38426,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/tips-on-receiving-lightsail-2-telemetry-and-cw-id\/","url_meta":{"origin":38356,"position":0},"title":"Tips on receiving Lightsail 2 telemetry and CW ID","author":"Thomas","date":"July 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Grayhat, who shares the following update to our post regarding the Lightsail 2: Some updates about the micro-satellite; first of all, sounds like it may be possible to receive the satellite CW beacon and FSK telemetry data using an SDR and a 70cm Yagi\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lightsail2-cubesat.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7539,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/work-the-nasa-spacecraft-juno-tomorrow-and-get-a-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":38356,"position":1},"title":"Work the NASA Spacecraft Juno (and get a QSL card)!","author":"Thomas","date":"October 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Troy, who emailed us about a really fun and unique opportunity for amateur radio operators:\u00a0 to send the NASA spacecraft Juno\u00a0a Morse Code greeting [specifically, \"HI\"] when it\u00a0passes over Earth tomorrow, starting around 18:00 UTC. 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