{"id":3179,"date":"2020-07-16T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:30:38","slug":"spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch AMSAT-EA EASAT-2 and Hades satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">SpaceX to launch AMSAT-EA EASAT-2 and Hades satellites<\/h2>\n<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34099\" data-attachment-id=\"34099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/07\/16\/spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites\/hades-satellite\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,4000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"0\"}' data-image-title=\"Hades satellite\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;AMSAT-EA Hades PocketQube&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg?w=225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg?w=593\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300\" alt=\"AMSAT-EA Hades PocketQube\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300 225w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg?w=450&amp;h=600 450w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/hades-satellite.jpg?w=113&amp;h=150 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMSAT-EA Hades PocketQube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Spain&rsquo;s national amateur radio society URE says SpaceX expect to launch the EASAT-2 and Hades satellites in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>AMSAT-EA, the URE satellite group, is building the satellites together with the European University of Madrid. The launch has been managed through the space broker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbaOrbital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alba Orbital<\/strong><\/a> based in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>EASAT-2 and Hades will be launched into a sun-synchronous orbit between 500 km and 600 km and their main function is to act as analog and digital repeaters for radio amateurs. There is also a camera for SSTV transmissions provided by the Czech Republic that has already flown on the United States Marine Academy PSAT-2 satellite, and has now been adapted to fit into the PocketQube satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Both satellites are based on the PocketQube 1.5P (7.5 x 5 x 5 cm) architecture and represent an evolution of the previous GENESIS platform, whose GENESIS-L and GENESIS-N satellites are expected to fly before the end of the year with Firefly, in a joint collaboration with Fossa Systems and LibreSpace, which also launch their own satellites, all of them within the Picobus dispenser, developed by the latter.<\/p>\n<p>IARU has coordinated these frequencies:<br \/>\n&bull; Hades &ndash; uplink <span>145.925 MHz, downlink 436.888 MHz&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n&bull; EASAT-2 &ndash; uplink <span>145.875 MHz<\/span>, downlink <span>436.666 MHz<\/span><\/p>\n<p>IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination pages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsat.org.uk\/iaru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amsat.org.uk\/iaru\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source URE <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/SpainURE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/SpainURE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/07\/16\/spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get The Details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>m5aka  <\/p>\n<p>AMSAT-UK<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&rsquo;s national amateur radio society URE says SpaceX expect to launch the EASAT-2 and Hades satellites in December 2020. AMSAT-EA, the URE satellite group, is building the satellites together with the European University of Madrid. The launch has been managed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2020\/07\/16\/spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/spacex-to-launch-amsat-ea-easat-2-and-hades-satellites\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-amsat","tag-amsat","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}