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FUNcube-Lite Updated: 08 Jan 2025   Responsible Operator Brian Hardy G4BIP
Supporting Organisation AMSAT-UK & Surrey Space Centre  
Contact Person g4bip@hotmail.co.uk.nospam  
Headline Details: FUNcube-Lite will be a payload on the 6U Jovian-1 mission which is being developed by Space South Central a collaboration between the universities of Surrey, Portsmouth and Southampton, this is known as JUPITER – the Joint Universities Programme for In-Orbit Training, Education and Research. FUNcube-Lite will include an Amateur & Education Mission which will provide an FM U/V transponder with CTCSS tone control or, alternatively, a VHF 1k2 BPSK telemetry for educational outreach. The FUNcube-Lite subsystem will downlink various “health and welfare” telemetry channels collected from the main CAN bus. This will provide data suitable for educational outreach to be undertaken as in previous FUNcube missions. It may also downlink low res “thumbnail” images for the same purpose. It is planned that the transponder will be available for amateur use worldwide when the spacecraft is in eclipse and autonomously switch to high power educational telemetry when in sunlight. This follows the initial FUNcube-1 practice and will be configurable in orbit depending on power and other constraints. Jovian-1 will use separate, non-amateur frequencies in the commercial S and X bands, for other TT&C and mission data downlinks. Proposing to reuse ESEO frequencies, 145.895 MHz for downlink and 435.090 MHz for uplink. More info from https://www.spacesouthcentral.com/news/universities-launch-pioneering-space-programme-to-boost-uk-skills-and-graduate-opportunities and https://amsat-uk.org/tag/jovian-1/ and https://funcube.org.uk/ No launch opportunity has yet been confirmed but a a polar orbit of approx 500 km is anticipated. **A downlink on 145.895 MHz and an uplink on 435.090 MHz have been coordinated**
Application Date: 02 Jan 2025   Freq coordination completed on 08 Jan 2025

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