AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin: December 14, 2000
AMSAT-DL President (and P3D Project leader) Dr. Karl Meinzer, DJ4ZC, and AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH,
informed ANS of the current status of AMSAT OSCAR-40:
AO-40 Telemetry Transmissions Stop
Development Team Investigating
Early Wednesday, December 13th, telemetry transmissions from AO-40 stopped while work on the 400 N propulsion system was in progress. An
investigation by the AO-40 development team has begun. They are now waiting for certain on-board software events to occur on Saturday
afternoon, December 16th. These are programmed to start a spacecraft emergency routine called ‘command-assist’ which attempts to
re-establish communications. This offers the best chance of recovering evidence of the incident which made the telemetry transmissions stop.
When more information becomes available, we will pass it along.
Signed,
| Dr. Karl Meinzer, DJ4ZC | (and) | Robin Haighton, VE3FRH |
| President AMSAT-DL | President AMSAT-NA |
Stay tuned to ANS for additional bulletins from AMSAT, the official source for information on AMSAT OSCAR-40.
[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA and AMSAT-DL for this information]
Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to the ANS Editors at ans-editor@amsat.org, or to ANS Editor Dan James,
NN0DJ, at nn0dj@amsat.org.
This AMSAT News Service special bulletin was edited by AMSAT News
Service editor Dan James, NN0DJ.
