PICAXE in Space - Again

srnet

Senior Member
The TUPOD launcher came out of the International Space station on Monday as planned and after the required 3 day delay, the Tubesats were ejected and the TUPOD beacon went active.

https://www.gaussteam.com/tupod-almost-ready-for-launch/

The TUPOD launcher has a PICAXE powered Morse beacon and can be heard on the frequency below for the next few days only;

https://www.gaussteam.com/tag/tupod/

The TUPOD was launched from the ISS on Monday and they dont use rockets, so TUPOD should still be quite close to the ISS, lots of websites report the current position of the ISS.
 
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amdunn

New Member
Did the 3rd link in post #1 work ?
No, that seems to pull up WASEDA-SAT3. But I do see that I can search, and if I do a Find a Satellite for TUPOD it seems to come up with something... although it shows launched in 1998 which is clearly wrong.
 

srnet

Senior Member
No, that seems to pull up WASEDA-SAT3. But I do see that I can search, and if I do a Find a Satellite for TUPOD it seems to come up with something... although it shows launched in 1998 which is clearly wrong.
Indeed, the tracking info was that provided by the GAUSS team responsible for the actual launch.

However as the TUPOD was launched from the ISS on Monday morning it is still going to be fairly close to it, there are lots of sites tell you where the ISS is.
 
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