OBSERVATIONS    GM1SXX             15Dec 2009

The Chinese XW-1 satellite which contains an amateur radio package was launched successfully today.

More here from Alan Kung of the XW-1 team.

• Subject: [amsat-bb] XW-1 was launched successfully
• From: "Alan Kung" <alankung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:45:35 +0800

XW-1 was launched at UTC 02:31 and has successfully gotten into the orbit at 
UTC 02:53. BA7JA, BA7NQ and BA7IA, members of XW-1 launching monitoring team 
reported they received XW-1 beacon in Sanya city Hainan province after the 
satellite deployed.

XW-1 Keplerian data  
1 99999U          09349.11987269  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0 00006
2 99999 100.4859 046.2958 0001760 147.4703 038.6343 13.15267150000017

For the satellite test, XW-1 will work on FM and Store-forward transponder 
mode between UTC 12:52:34 and 13:14:32 today, and will work on linear 
transponder mode between UTC 12:36:31 and 12:58:32 tomorrow. after that we will 
upload new flight program to setup payload schedule.

XW-1 telemetry beacon will keep continue to transmit.

73
Alan Kung,BA1DU
XW-1 project manger
www.camsat.cn