The project leader and initiator of MarconISSta, Martin Buscher DJ1MBB, has requested some support to help categorise the antennas on the ISS. The ARISS telebridge groundstation ON4ISS reacted immediately and transmitted at different ISS passes the desired signal to the ISS.
SUMMARY OF TEST TRANSMISSION – ON4ISS
TX on 435.550 MHz during the entire pass, LHCP
Tuesday 5 FEB 2019
orbit 115480 max el 80° – AOS 14:29 utc (269° Az) – LOS 14:40 utc (88° Az)
orbit 115483 max el 20° – AOS 19:19 utc (270° Az) – LOS 19:29 utc (143° Az)
Wednesday 6 FEB 2019
orbit 115494 max el 09° – AOS 12:03 utc (182° Az) – LOS 12:12 utc (83° Az)
orbit 115495 max el 38° – AOS 13:38 utc (231° Az) – LOS 13:49 utc (75° Az)
orbit 115496 max el 85° – AOS 15:14 utc (266° Az) – LOS 15:25 utc (83° Az)
orbit 115497 max el 85° – AOS 16:51 utc (280° Az) – LOS 17:02 utc (104° Az)
orbit 115498 max el 38° – AOS 18:28 utc (281° Az) – LOS 18:38 utc (133° Az)
orbit 115499 max el 06° – AOS 20:05 utc (281° Az) – LOS 20:12 utc (133° Az)
Thursday 7 FEB 2019
orbit 115509 max el 05° – AOS 11:13 utc (169° Az) – LOS 11:20 utc (88° Az)
orbit 115510 max el 26° – AOS 12:47 utc (216° Az) – LOS 12:58 utc (74° Az)
orbit 115511 max el 81° – AOS 14:24 utc (252° Az) – LOS 14:34 utc (80° Az)
orbit 115512 max el 83° – AOS 16:00 utc (276° Az) – LOS 16:11 utc (96° Az)
This experiment ended Feb 7th 2019 at midnight (UTC) and only receive signal strength value for 435-438 MHz without decoding data. MarconISSta was deinstalled on Saturday, February 9th 2019, by NASA astronaut Anne McClain.
The project is conducted by a team of researchers and students from Technische Universität Berlin with support of DLR, ESA, ARISS and other partners.