• ITF-2 CubeSat Set to Deploy from ISS

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Fri Jan 13 17:17:02 2017
    01/13/2017

    Toshihiro Kameda, JJ3GRX/W3GRX, of the University of Tsukuba's "Yui[1]" satellite project in Japan, reports that the ITF-2 ("imagine the future") CubeSat is set for release from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, January 16, at 0910 UTC.

    The 1U ITF-2 was designed and built at the university. The Amateur Radio downlink is 437.525 MHz. Updated information will be announced on the AMSAT Bulletin Board[2].

    ITF-2 is the successor to the unsuccessful ITF-1, which launched in 2014 but was never heard.






    [1] http://yui.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/
    [2] http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/

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