ESA Offering Prizes For First Radio Reception From Satellite

An anonymous reader writes: The European Space Agency education office set up a contest to receive the radio signals from their new Cubesat satellites: AAUSAT4, E-st@r-II or OUFTI-1. Prizes will be rewarded to those who receive the first signal (audio or waterfall) from TLM, packet or ham radio transponders. Even if you're not the first, any valid submission will be rewarded with a nice QSL card from ESA, reports one space site.

Arianespace's Soyuz is scheduled for liftoff on April 24 with a multi-mission satellite payload. Designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system, the medium-lift Soyuz carries a mixed payload of the Sentinel-1B C-band radar observation platform, a trio of "Fly Your Satellite!" technology demonstrator CubeSats, and the Microscope scientific satellite.

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[Opportunist]

How do you think your opinion would influence that? Or that of your gardener?

Satnogs

[braindrainbahrain]

Oh No! Will I be able to build my Satnog Ground Station [satnogs.org] in time?

Conspiracy

[Luthair]

to make me take off my tinfoil hat to listen.

Did Telstar do This When Launched?

[tmjva]

I think I'll play "Telstar" by The Ventures now.