IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination
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IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination |
| NILA CubeSat | Updated: 27 Jan 2025 | Responsible Operator | Binoop Jospeh VU2BNK | |
| Supporting Organisation | HEX20Labs India Private Limited | |||
| Contact Person | binoop.joseph@hex20.space.nospam | |||
| Headline Details: A 3U CubeSat. NILA will test out HEX20’s spacecraft subsystems in orbit and provide attitude determination data as well performance of a passive magnet attitude control system. NILA will also demonstrate in-orbit innovative deployment mechanisms from DCUBED that uses shape memory polymers. All the spacecraft and payload data will be publicly available for amateur dissemination. HEX20 ground station located at Marian Engineering College Trivandrum will be used for UHF communications. Primary mission objectives: 1. Measure the in-orbit performance of the spacecraft sub-systems, passive magnet attitude control system and spacecraft attitude parameters. 2. Measure the in-orbit performance of the deployment pin pullers and release nuts. Due to NILA’s nature as an education and research mission, much of the research work is done by HEX20 employees and undergraduate students at Marian Engineering College. This work is invaluable to students as they learn and become well versed in space science and spacecraft operations. In working on the project, these students become knowledgeable and appreciative of amateur radio art and go on to form the next generation of radio amateurs. NILA CubeSat will beacon once every twenty seconds while in safe and nominal modes. During Nominal operations NILA will continue to beacon, however, it will only downlink science data while over the Hex20 ground station. Proposing a UHF downlink using 9k6 GFSK with AX25 encapsulation. Planning a launch from Vandenberg on Transporter 13 mission into a 510 km polar orbit NET end Feb 2025. More info at https://hex20.in/ ** This request has been declined as IARU is not in a position to assign frequencies for commercial spacecraft and/or satellites with a scientific payload. IARU opposes the use of spectrum allocated to the amateur satellite service by satellites that have no amateur payload.** | ||||
| Application Date: | 22 Jan 2025 | Freq coordination completed on | 27 Jan 2025 | |
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