Carried along with the primary payload, the GOSAT satellite that will observe carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, the cubesat PRISM went to orbit on Thursday January 22 at 22:54 ET.
The Kentucky Space Earth Station at the University of Kentucky tracked PRISM on January 23rd at 13:35 EST. The Morse Code (CW) beacon was received and recorded over the UHF downlink by Kentucky Space graduate student Prasanna Padmanabhan.
PRISM was designed by the students from The University of Tokyo. This satellite will conduct an experiment on Earth image acquisition by using an expandable refracting telescope. A technological demonstration and verification of the ultra-small satellite bus made of commercial products will also be conducted. The decode follows the jump.
Mix-W CW data:
MRU
E ECE TTU-TOKYO.AC.J E
TE
NE
EEAT E - ENH T I S T E T O
TM T TT 0000 F E5A5 S 4T0A5A4
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R10 E 00A51DFF TE ET 0AN0
W T W3OM AG E 50
EH 5 R T0SS A0 M E0
9: T E
NR E
N3
A E1I M EI A0 UMS
T D I J453
R TE B 015 000O
& N 5W
T6100
IA MS TT TT M 00T M E T T T
O 0M T O W T00 0000MO0
R9
MF3F403F40 OK U03F3 EISE O T41
MT M IMEE M MD 53
GRBM EI
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E042QET E T0 V T MT
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