10/2/2012
AENEAS was sucessfully launched on September 13th 2012. Since then we have recieved very large amounts of support from the international community. Our spacecraft has been heard from various locations in the world including: Germany, Japan, Australia, India, Italy, United States.
Our spacecraft is the first nanosatellite to deploy a antenna of this magnitude, ever in the history of all cubesat launches. The dish antenna is 0.5 meters in length and will be oriented through sun tracking and three axis stabilized methods as the mission progresses.
The AENEAS team would like to personally thank those who assisted in tracking and listening/decoding our beacons. Your help has assisted us in understanding very mission critical information about the state of our vehicle.
We would like to reserve this page / thank the following amateur satellite listeners and supporters below:
Mike Repprecht (DK3WN), for consistenly listening to the AENEAS beacon and sorting out TLE data during the first few critical weeks of our mission. Please visit his blog for updates http://www.dk3wn.info/p/
Tetsu (JA0CAW) and Noguchi (JA5BLZ) San, for providing us with initial decoded beacon data, when AENEAS was in a low-power state, which helped us determine the vehicle condition. Tetsu also has a blog which can be reached here: http://ja0caw-je0mzi.mo-blog.jp/
Talbot Jaeger and Michael Reddik from Novawurks in Los Alamitos, providing us with the resources for local mission support and AMSAT tracking. Please visit http://www.novawurks.com for more information.
Nader Omar and Colin Hurst for actively listening to our beacons
SRI (Stanford Research Institute) for loaning the SRI 60 foot dish in order to contact AENEAS
Lastly, we would like to thank everyone who has supported in the past and is supporting us in the present
This is a very exciting time for all of us as the mission unfolds.
GO AENEAS!
