Australian Ham Radio Discussion Forum ( AHRDF )

D-Star ONE Launch on November 28

 D-Star ONE is the first private German CubeSat and the first D-Star communication spacecraft worldwide.

 D-Star ONE will be launched on November 28, 2017 from Vostochny launch site jointly with the Meteor-M ?2-1 mission of the Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS. Final launch preparations are currently being performed.

 D-Star repeater & beacon frequencies: 
Uplink:   437.325MHz 
Downlink: 435.525MHz 
RF-Power: 800mW
 
Additional information will be posted at: http://www.d-star.one/
 (AMSAT-NA)

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Amateur Radio-Carrying D-Star One CubeSat among Spacecraft Apparently Lost

 The first Amateur Radio satellite to employ the D-Star digital voice and data format  D-Star One  was among about 20 secondary payloads lost on November 28 after an otherwise nominal launch of a three-stage Soyuz 2.1 booster from the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far reaches of eastern Russia.

 The mission carried the Russian Meteor M2-1 satellite  the primary payload as well as a Canadian Telestar experimental satellite, and 17 other secondary payloads, including D-Star One.

 According to reports, a fault occurred in the sophisticated and autonomous Fregat upper stage, which, after separating from the launch vehicle, inserts multiple spacecraft into their respective orbits. A so-called space tug, Fregat has been in service for nearly 2 decades.

 Russian space agency Roscosmos is investigating the Fregat failure.
 (ARRL)

From text edition for DEC 10  2017 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/

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Sad to hear the report about the loss of a satellite or failure of a launch vehicle.
I'm in don't care mode when it comes to dstar which seems to be a commercial system and hardware manufacturer specific.

Ian
VK3YCQ