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   ARLS004 Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat Deployed from ISS   
      
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   Space Bulletin 004  ARLS004   
   > From ARRL Headquarters   
   Newington, CT  August 19, 2014   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
   SB SPACE ARL ARLS004   
   ARLS004 Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat Deployed from ISS   
      
   A team of Russian cosmonauts has deployed the Peruvian Chasqui-1   
   Amateur Radio CubeSat into orbit during a spacewalk from the   
   International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 40 Flight Engineers   
   Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev released the tiny, 1 kg   
   spacecraft at 1423 UTC on August 18. Chasqui-1 is a project of the   
   Peruvian National University of Engineering (Universidad Nacional de   
   Ingenieria or UNI), in collaboration with the Southwestern State   
   University in Kursk, Russia. According to AMSAT-UK, the CubeSat's   
   batteries were charged last week. It was launched in February 2014   
   on board a Progress cargo craft.   
      
   Information about Chasqui-1 can be found on the web at,   
   http://www.chasqui.uni.edu.pe/eng.html .   
      
   As Peru's first satellite, its main goal is improving UNI's   
   satellite technology, its builders said. The satellite is intended   
   to take pictures of Earth and relay them to the ground station. It   
   carries two cameras, one operating in the visible light spectrum and   
   the other in the infrared spectrum. Amateur Radio is a secondary   
   payload.   
      
   Chasqui-1's beacon on 437.025 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift) can   
   transmit either 1200 bps AFSK AX.25 or 9600 bps GMSK. As of August   
   19, the beacon had not been heard.   
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