Transporter-17 Rideshare: VSFB SLC-4E : 2026-07-07 07:10 UTC

Hi all, MARMOTSat ops lead here. We made contact on the first pass over our ground station, approx 01:40 PT (~35 minutes after deployment) and have had two more successful passes since then. So far everything on board appears to be healthy.

As @crispywaffle42 said, the UHF is only active when we have line of sight to our ground station (48.4612, -123.31). The VHF and HF are not active at this time, and won’t be for quite a while. I would estimate at least a few weeks before we transmit anything on VHF, and a few months for the HF. Keep an eye on https://www.marmotsat.ca/ and https://www.propagationlab.ca/satellite/, we will post any updates to the payload schedule there!

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