Two of Australia’s new satellites will deploy from the International Space Station at 3:25pm (AEST) today. A live feed is available at UNSW ground station, plus telemetry graphics.
Wilson da Silva
Faculty of Engineering
+61 407 907 017
w.dasilva@unsw.edu.au
The first of Australia’s three new satellites, UNSW-EC0, built by Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) at the University of New South Wales, will be launched from the International Space Station at 3:25pm (AEST) today.
The ACSER team will be watching a live video feed of the deployment from their ground station at UNSW’s Kensington campus. Vision will include video of the deployment ‘cannon’, which will fire the satellites into orbit, as well as orbital trajectory graphics.
The UNSW team will then try to establish contact with the satellite as it passes over Sydney at 4:21pm (AEST) today, in the hope that it was not damaged during launch and is operating as designed.
MEDIA CALL DETAILS
What: Live deployment of UNSW-EC0 satellite from the International Space Station When: 3:25pm Thursday, 25 May 2017 At 4:21pm, the UNSW engineers will try to establish contact with the satellite
Where: ACSER Operations Centre, Room 419, Building G17 - Electrical Engineering Entry via Gate 14, Barker St, Kensington NSW 2052 (Google Maps link here)
At the ground station will be:
As well as many of the students and researchers help build the satellite.
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