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India’s VO-52 Satellite Goes Dark TAGS: amateur radio, Amateur Radio satellite, Amateur Radio transponders, batteries, geosynchronous orbit, good friend, [url=http://www.arrl.org/news/search/Tag.name peration]operation[/url], [url=http://www.arrl.org/news/search/Tag.name rbits]orbits[/url], technology
07/21/2014 Despite efforts to keep the flagging VUSat OSCAR-52 (VO-52) Amateur Radio satellite in operation for a while longer, ground controllers have yielded to the nearly decade-old spacecraft’s failing technology and have permanently taken it out of service. Launched into low Earth orbit in 2005, the VO-52 microsatellite carried two Amateur Radio transponders for SSB and CW. B.A. “Mani” Subramani, VU2WMY/KJ6LRS, of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that VO-52’s lithium-ion batteries had failed, and the satellite was officially decommissioned on July 21.
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